US11065231B2
The present disclosure relates to bifunctional compounds, which find utility as modulators of Interleukin-1 Receptor-Associated Kinase 4 (IRAK-4); the target protein). In particular, the present disclosure is directed to bifunctional compounds, which contain on one end a Von Hppel-Lindau, cereblon, ligand which binds to the E3 ubiquitin ligase and on the other end a moiety which binds the target protein, such that the target protein is placed in proximity to the ubiquitin ligase to effect degradation (and inhibition) of target protein. The present disclosure exhibits a broad range of pharmacological activities associated with degradation/inhibition of target protein. Diseases or disorders that result from aggregation or accumulation of the target protein are treated or prevented with compounds and compositions of the present disclosure.
US11065230B2
The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of systemic mastocytosis. The inventors showed the effect of KPT-251 treatment on SCF-dependent human Mast cell (MC) line without KIT mutation (WT ROSA) and on two factor-independent MC lines with KIT mutations : ROSA Δ 417-419 insY and ROSA D816V. KPT is a Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) that specifically inhibits the activity of the exportin-1 (XPO1). KPT-251 treatment induces minimal toxicity in non-cancerous hematopoietic cells both in vitro and in vivo. In particular, the present invention relates a method of treating systemic mastocytosis in patient in need thereof comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a XPO1 inhibitor.
US11065221B2
There is disclosed buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) for use in a method of treatment of cancer, HIV or a rheumatic disease. The method comprises administering (a) BSO at a dosage of less than or equal to 50 mg/kg, and (b) a metallodrug at a clinically-acceptable dosage.
US11065212B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for preventing or treating (e.g., slowing the progression of, arresting, and/or reversing) calciphylaxis in a subject in need thereof and, more particularly, the invention relates to methods of using menaquinone-7 (MK-7) and/or menaquinol-7 (MKH2-7) for preventing or treating calciphylaxis in a subject with one or more of the following: diabetes, chronic kidney disease, end stage renal failure, and COPD or a subject undergoing hemodialysis and/or receiving anticoagulant therapy and/or statin therapy.
US11065207B2
The present invention in general relates to a pharmaceutical dosage form comprising one or more granules, and a method for manufacturing thereof. The granules of the dosage form are prepared via the extrusion/spheronization technique using partially hydrolysed polyvinyl alcohol. These granules have the advantage that a high drug load can be contained therein.
US11065205B2
In one aspect, the present invention is concerned with a treatment where it is desired that an active agent is designed to be released immediately following administration and again at a time point some time after administration of the active agent. The present invention is particularly suited to administering an agent which may be released before sleep and whilst a subject is sleeping. As well as treating certain conditions by a particular regime, the invention also provides novel formulations for an immediate, followed by a delayed release of drug.
US11065192B2
A mascara composition includes a film-forming polymer portion. The film-forming polymer portion is stabilized in a vehicle that includes water. The film-forming polymer portion includes a high molecular weight vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer and an acrylic polymer having a glass transition temperature of 65° C. or more. The mascara composition includes at least about 10 percent by weight of the vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer and is substantially free of wax. Methods of applying makeup to the eyelashes are also provided.
US11065190B2
One aspect of the present disclosure is a cosmetic composition containing a solubilized pigment and a method for preparing the same. More specifically, the cosmetic composition containing the solubilized pigment may be prepared through a process of dissolving a pigment in an aqueous phase by dispersing the pigment in the aqueous phase using a pigment dispersing thickener and stabilizing by further increasing the viscosity using a stabilizing thickener. Since the solubilized pigment exhibits dyeing properties similar to dyes, it can be widely applied to various cosmetic compositions.
US11065179B2
A therapeutic flotation device and a therapeutic method of use thereof is disclosed. The device includes a plurality of buoyant float elements and a member (an elongated web strap) that couples each of the buoyant float elements such that the buoyant float elements are serially aligned along the member. A first end of the member is secured to a second end of the member. A mating mechanism, such as a buckle, secures the first end of the member to the second end of the member, or the two ends of the member may be permanently secured to each other using an adhesive or by being sewn together. Each of the buoyant float elements has a center aperture aligned along the center of a cross-section thereof. The member is preferably coupled to each of the buoyant float elements by being sequentially passed through the center apertures of each buoyant float element.
US11065178B2
A vibrating back massager with guide slot and vibrating heads is described. The guide slot is designed to restrict lateral movement of the massage device when the guide slot is engaged with a supporting member. The supporting member may be the edge of an open door, a corner, a vertical pole, or other generally available structure. The device includes a strap handle which may be draped over the user's shoulder and used to control the vertical position of the device. The described vibrating massage device allows a single user to create and maintain a significant amount of massage pressure without fatiguing his arms or relying on a second person. In a preferred embodiment, the controls for the vibrating massage device are incorporated into the strap handle so that the speed, intensity, and/or temperature may be controlled by the user without repositioning the device.
US11065170B2
A smart medical rehabilitation device comprises a driving unit, a linkage unit, a sensing unit and a rehabilitation evaluating unit that are mounted on a frame, wherein the linkage unit comprises a link mechanism and a slide mechanism linked thereto so that the slide mechanism can be moved together with the link mechanism, wherein the slide mechanism is driven by the driving unit to slide along the groove plate, the link mechanism is linked to move with the slide mechanism thus the link mechanism moves to the corresponding position so that the slide mechanism can assist a training object in performing lower limb rehabilitation training, and the rehabilitation evaluating unit evaluates the physical status and rehabilitation status of the training object according to the physiological information and exercise information of the same collected by the sensing unit, and adjusts the exercise frequency and the exercise duration of the training object according to the physical status in real time.
US11065169B2
There is provided herein an examination table that is capable of being converted to render either an examination configuration or a seating configuration. The table includes a planar table member having a suitable surface for the examination of a subject and is adjustable between a horizontal orientation for medical evaluation of the subject and a vertical orientation when in the table member is not in use for exams.
US11065167B2
A wheelchair includes a pivotable mechanism. The pivotable mechanism allows for a pivoting movement about an axis defined by an interface between adjacent components. These components may be (a) a seat member and a back member, (b) a seat member and a footrest, (c) a foot rest and a footplate support, (d) a baseplate and a footplate, or (e) a back member and a headrest.
US11065159B2
An absorbent body 4 is provided between a liquid permeable topsheet 3 and a liquid impermeable backsheet 2, and a second sheet 6 is provided between the liquid permeable topsheet 3 and the absorbent body 4. Slits 10 that penetrate in the thickness direction are formed along a longitudinal direction on both sides of the absorbent body 4 in the width direction, a body fluid expelling portion corresponding region H is included between the slits, the second sheet 6 is provided along an inner surface of the slits, and concave grooves 11, in which the second sheet 6 and the liquid impermeable backsheet 2 are integrated, are formed in the slits. At least a portion of the second sheet 6 constituting one of the side surfaces of the concave groove 11 has water-repellent properties.
US11065152B2
Systems, methods, and devices used to treat eyelids, meibomian glands, ducts, and surrounding tissue are described herein. In some embodiments, an eye treatment device is disclosed, which includes a scleral shield positionable proximate an inner surface of an eyelid, the scleral shield being made of, or coated with, an energy-absorbing material activated by a light energy, and an energy transducer positionable outside of the eyelid, the energy transducer configured to provide light energy at one or more wavelengths, including a first wavelength selected to heat the energy-absorbing material.
US11065150B2
A medical device includes: a shaft having a distal end and an associated exhaust channel; a first balloon configured to be attached to the distal end of the shaft, the first balloon having an outer surface that is substantially conformal to an inner surface of a uterine cavity; and a second balloon configured to be received within the first balloon and forming an intermediary space between the first balloon and an outer surface of the second balloon. The second balloon includes at least one rupture valve configured to rupture at a predefined pressure in the intermediary space.
US11065147B2
A surgical system includes a fluid source including a fluid inflow tube, a fluid delivery device coupled to the fluid inflow tube and configured to deliver fluid from the fluid source into a patient, a surgical instrument, and a control box coupled to the surgical instrument. The control box includes one or more waste heat-generating electronic components and a heat pipe assembly disposed in thermal communication with the one or more waste heat-generating electronic components. The fluid inflow tube is disposed in thermal communication with the heat pipe assembly of the control box such that the heat pipe assembly conducts heat away from the one or more waste heat-generating electronic components and heats fluid flowing through the fluid inflow tube.
US11065145B2
The present invention relates to a biocompatible device that integrates electromagnetic and mechanical elements and allows the combination of different mechanisms for voluntary closing of the intestinal lumen. The device can be used either with a stoma to control intestinal transit to the outside and avoid the use of collection pouches, or without a stoma to regulate intestinal transit for another medically necessary reason.
US11065135B2
Provided is a thin, narrow tube for use in a biodegradable medical device formed from a round tube made of a magnesium material as the base material, in which a desired outer diameter and an inner diameter are provided with good precision over the entire region in a longitudinal direction and a circumferential direction, and the length of biodegradation time can be controlled without changing a material composition. The thin, narrow tube is a thin, narrow tube of a biodegradable medical device, in which the thin, narrow tube is a round tube made of crystals containing magnesium (Mg) having a hexagonal crystal structure, and when the crystals forming the round tube are viewed in a round tube axis direction of the round tube, a hexagonal basal plane (0001) is oriented at a predetermined inclination angle with respect to a circumferential direction perpendicular to a radial direction (a direction from an inner surface to an outer surface) of the round tube.
US11065126B2
A spinal interbody device (IBD) includes a solid wall that at least partially defines a boundary of the IBD and a porous body connected to the solid wall. The porous body includes a plurality of sections that form at least a portion of both a superior and inferior bone interface side of the IBD. Each section of the porous body has a different porosity than an adjacent section such that the porosities increase toward a center of the IBD.
US11065096B2
Medical procedures and devices suitable for reducing the risk of embolic cerebrovascular events, including but not limited to cardioembolic stroke, that result from emboli entering the right or left common carotid artery. The invention uses a combination of intracranial flow diverting stent technologies and carotid stent technologies to achieve clinical objectives of embolic stroke prevention without thromboembolic and/or vascular stenosis complication. Such a stent has struts that generate high radial forces for endothelial apposition, and a mesh with interstices sufficiently small to prevent clinically significant-sized embolic material from passing therethrough from the common carotid artery into the internal carotid artery, but sufficiently large to enable blood and small clinically insignificant-sized embolic material to pass therethrough from the common carotid artery into the internal carotid artery.
US11065094B2
The subject of the invention is a biological prosthesis suitable for gastrointestinal surgery and in particular for the treatment of parastomal hernias. It has a thickness (12) of between 0.5 and 4 mm, consisting of dermis removed from a part of an animal belonging to the family of pigs, cattle or goats, with the said part of the animal corresponding to a part extending from the area (16) located at the base of the tail next to the junction of the last sacral vertebrae up to an area (18) starting at the base of the tail and encompassing the circumference of at least a part of the caudal vertebrae.
US11065093B2
Described is a catheter for being retained inside the body for extended periods, and a catheter mating device that can connect to the catheter to move the catheter inside of the body or remove it from the body. The catheter mating device has a stem with an apparatus at its distal end. The apparatus is moveable between a first position and a second position. When in its first position, the distal end is configured to fit in the proximal end of the catheter. When in its second position, the distal end engages the proximal end of the catheter and connects the catheter mating device to the catheter.
US11065084B2
To have convenient and highly precise prediction of the shape of a human body after a treatment by calculation processing that includes extracting a feature vector Fnew from face data of a patient as an evaluation subject, selecting a plurality of case patients having feature vectors Fpre(i), extracted from the face data of a plurality of previous patients, obtaining pre-orthodontic facial shape models Hpre(i) and a post-orthodontic facial shape models Hpost(i) in which the faces of the selected previous case patients before and after a treatment have been normalized, obtaining a facial shape model Hnew, and obtaining a three-dimensional predicted facial shape model Hprd, by modifying the facial shape model Hnew of the patient as an evaluation subject, using a vector average difference AVEpost−AVEpre between the pre-treatment and post-treatment facial shape models.
US11065077B2
Mechanical optics for mode mixing may be used to homogenize different modes in an optical fiber used for surgical illumination. A mechanical optical element, such as a rotating prism or a mirror membrane, may impart motion to an incident beam entering the optical fiber to generate a homogeneous illumination field from a coherent light source.
US11065075B2
Systems and methods for an extended tissue expander according to various aspects of the present technology may function in conjunction with a graft material for temporary implantation into a patient to form a pocket for a permanent implant. Systems and methods may comprise an extended tissue expander comprising an extension portion that may be integral to a posterior section of a shell of the extended tissue expander, wherein the extension portion extends from the posterior section forming an at least partially continuous annular rim around the circumference of the shell. The graft material may overlay an anterior portion of the shell and may be coupled to the at least partially continuous annular rim with bioabsorbable sutures. Upon implantation, the shell may be partially filled with a filler material until the graft material is gently pressed against a posterior portion of the patient skin flap, promoting its integration.
US11065073B1
Drape systems, apparatuses and methods are provided. In some aspects a drape may create an impervious barrier for preventing medical contaminants from contaminating a medical table and/or a medical table base. One drape embodiment includes a central portion, a first end cover and a second end cover, and first and second side portions having fold portions for forming troughs. A drape embodiment may include an absorbent surface having a discontinuous section and in inner perimeter for forming a barrier about a medical table base.
US11065070B2
A robot system which includes a manipulator configured to receive a manipulating instruction from an operator, a slave arm having a plurality of joints, and a control device configured to control operation of the slave arm. The control device is configured, while the slave arm is operating at a speed equal to or higher than a first given the threshold, even when an operational instruction value for correcting the operation of the slave arm is inputted from the manipulator during an automatic operation of the slave arm, to prevent the correction of the operation of the slave arm.
US11065065B2
A method comprises the steps of: imaging a patient anatomy; selecting an implant strategy for at least one bone fastener having a first member; registering the imaging of the patient anatomy with imaging of a surgical driver; engaging the first member with tissue of the patient anatomy via the surgical driver according to the implant strategy; manipulating the patient anatomy; acquiring data points representative of a position of the first member relative to tissue; and retrieving the data points from a computer database for attaching a second member with the first member. Systems, spinal constructs, implants and surgical instruments are disclosed.
US11065060B2
Systems are provided for generating data representing electromagnetic states of a heart for medical, scientific, research, and/or engineering purposes. The systems generate the data based on source configurations such as dimensions of, and scar or fibrosis or pro-arrhythmic substrate location within, a heart and a computational model of the electromagnetic output of the heart. The systems may dynamically generate the source configurations to provide representative source configurations that may be found in a population. For each source configuration of the electromagnetic source, the systems run a simulation of the functioning of the heart to generate modeled electromagnetic output (e.g., an electromagnetic mesh for each simulation step with a voltage at each point of the electromagnetic mesh) for that source configuration. The systems may generate a cardiogram for each source configuration from the modeled electromagnetic output of that source configuration for use in predicting the source location of an arrhythmia.
US11065054B2
Surgical cutting apparatus having a treatment channel and a measurement channel for conveying microwave energy from a source to an antenna at a cutting edge. The measurement channel operates at lower power than the treatment channel for determining when higher energy can be safely applied. The apparatus may deliver microwave radiation at differing frequencies to one or more antennas at the cutting edge, e.g. to provide different treatment effects. The source may generate an output for an antenna whose frequency can be selected e.g. for most efficient operation. Selection may be automatic based on detected magnitude and phase of reflected signals during a frequency sweep of a forward signal. Power delivered to tissue via the cutting element may be manually boosted to deal with large blood vessels. The apparatus may include a reflected power monitor for recognising behaviour in reflected signals received from the antenna to trigger automatic pre-emptive action.
US11065041B2
A device for bone adjustment in a mammal. The device comprising two or more anchoring devices adapted to implanted intramedullary and attached to a bone in said mammal and an adjustment device for exerting force on said anchoring devices, said adjustment device being adapted to postoperatively adjust at least one of the distance between or orientation of, at least two of said anchoring devices. The operation device further comprises a motor and said operation device is adapted to operate said adjustment device. The operation device further comprises a gearbox connected to the motor, wherein an outgoing speed from the gear box is lower than the speed by the motor alone, accomplished by the gearbox, and wherein the outgoing speed of the gearbox is less than 10 turn per second during normal operation. The device also comprises a control device adapted to control the operation device, wherein the control device is: programmed to control the device according to a pre-programmed time-schedule, and programmed to control the device based on input from a sensor or measuring device sensing any possible physical parameter of the patient or any functional parameter of the system.
US11065040B2
An implantable device may comprise a barrel, the barrel having an upper portion and a lower portion. The barrel may be configured to transition from a collapsed form having a first height to an expanded form having a second height and wherein the second height is greater than the first height. The implantable device may further include an actuator assembly disposed in the barrel, the actuator assembly comprising a front ramped actuator in engagement with the barrel, a rear ramped actuator in engagement with the barrel, and a central screw that extends from the rear ramped actuator through the front ramped actuator. The implantable device may further comprise a first plate and a second plate.
US11065037B2
Spinal curvature modulation systems, methods and related devices and instrumentation are disclosed, which include a flexible tether, a tether tensioning unit and bone anchors for the flexible tether that allow the tether to be secured across multiple vertebrae in a region of treatment. When the flexible tether is attached to multiple vertebrae, it can be used to correct spinal deformities. Tension in the flexible tether is adjustable transcutaneously without invasive surgical procedures by use of remotely driven actuators, such as a magnet-driven motor, or by a small tool insertable through a small incision. Disclosed systems and methods thus allow for multiple adjustments of tether tension, and spinal curvature, over time without repeated, highly invasive, spinal surgeries.
US11065033B2
The present invention provides minimally invasive subdural evacuating systems and methods of use thereof. The subdural evacuating systems include a cutting component and a rod component, wherein the rod component provides an external physical indicator that the surface of the dura mater has been reached, permitting the cutting component to accurately pierce the dura mater with minimal to no risk of damaging any adjacent anatomy.
US11065020B2
A method for suctioning an object in a blood vessel, the method comprising: inserting an expansion portion connected to a shaft portion on a distal portion of the shaft portion into the blood vessel; expanding the expansion portion in the blood vessel; inserting a suction catheter along the shaft portion into the blood vessel; reciprocating at least the expansion portion or the suction catheter relative to each other along an axial axis of the shaft portion; and suctioning the object with the suction catheter.
US11065017B2
Systems, devices and methods for removing a blood clot (10) from a blood vessel (12). Various uses of suction pressure and positive pressure, proximal and/or distal to the blood clot (10) assist with clot dislodgement and removal. The pressure(s) may be constant and/or cycled/pulsed to assist with clot dislodgement and/or removal. Various further devices assist with separating the clot (10) from the vessel (12).
US11065007B2
A vascular plug comprises a superstructure expandable from a collapsed percutaneous insertion configuration to an expanded deployment or use configuration. The superstructure incorporates a channel or passageway and a catheter extends through the channel or passageway from a proximal side at least to a distal side of the superstructure. The central channel allows for over-the wire plug delivery and a working aperture for secondary vascular interventions under flow arrest prior to final plug release. The plug includes spring-loaded mechanical elements or clotting-enhancement structure for closing the channel or passageway upon a withdrawal or removal of the catheter from the superstructure.
US11064999B2
A powered handle for a surgical stapler can have a drive system including an electric motor. The powered handle can include a manual articulation mechanism to articulate a jaw assembly coupled to a reload shaft connected to the handle. The manual articulation mechanism can include a ball screw mechanism that translates an articulation member responsive to rotation of an articulation knob when an instrument shaft is engaged with the handle. The articulation mechanism includes a release function that allows the jaw assembly to return to a longitudinally centered orientation. The powered handle includes a battery pack serving as a power supply for the drive system. A control system can control actuation of the motor based on user inputs and operating parameters of the stapler and can provide certain motor drive profiles for predetermined positions of the stapler. The powered handle can include a manual return mechanism.
US11064988B2
A biodegradable device for maintaining the alignment of the edges of a trocar defect, consisting of two bases coupled and offset by a connector. The first base to be positioned below the defect and a second base above. The first base has a threaded hole from its upper surface but not through the lower surface. The connector attached to the bases such that there is a hole aligned with the threaded hole in the first base allowing a device to mate with the threads in the first base. The second base has a hole aligned with the hole in the connector and wide enough to allow a device to mate with the threads in the first base. The device is arranged so the distance between the lower surface of the second base and upper surface of the first base holds the fascia around the trocar defect.
US11064980B2
An instrument for collecting tissue from a body cavity includes a hollow tubular body having a tubular wall. The hollow tubular body can collect material from a body cavity in a coring mode or an aspiration mode. The tubular wall defines a passage that extends from a proximal end portion of the tubular body to a distal end portion of the tubular body. A middle section of the tubular body includes an articulating section that allows the middle section to articulate relative to the proximal end portion. The distal end portion includes at least one suction port extending from an outer wall surface to an inner wall surface of the tubular wall. The suction port provides a path of fluid communication between the outer wall surface and the passage for drawing in tissue from a body cavity when the tubular body is connected to a source of negative pressure.
US11064956B2
A breast compression paddle for use in an imaging system includes a compression surface and a jacket. The jacket includes at least one inflatable chamber disposed adjacent to the compression surface and a sheet covering at least a portion of the compression surface. The at least one inflatable chamber is configured to selectively inflate and induce the sheet to slide along the compression surface.
US11064954B2
A method for data display includes acquiring a three-dimensional (3D) map of a lumen inside a body of a subject, transforming the 3D map of the lumen into a two-dimensional (2D) image by projecting the 3D map onto an annulus, and presenting the 2D image on a display screen.
US11064952B2
An external medical device is provided. The device can include monitoring circuitry configured to sense physiological information of a patient and a controller with one or more input components. The controller can be configured to: detect one or more patient events based, at least in part, on the physiological information; notify the patient of the detection of the one or more patient events; and receive a patient response to the notification. The patient response can include a response activity identifiable by the input component, which is configured to test a psychomotor ability of the patient, cognitive ability of the patient, strength, balance, stability, and flexibility of the patient, and/or to substantially confirm that a person performing the activity is the patient.
US11064951B2
Infusion devices and related medical devices, patient data management systems, and methods are provided for monitoring a physiological condition of a patient. An exemplary database system includes a database to maintain data pertaining to a plurality of entities and a computing device coupled to the database to identify relationships between different entities of the plurality of entities, generate metadata defining a graph structure maintaining the relationships between the different entities of the plurality of entities for a plurality of different logical layers, and store the metadata in the database.
US11064944B2
A mobile healthcare device and method of operating the same are provided. The method includes setting a mode of the mobile healthcare device to a measurement mode, displaying a screen for guiding a user to maintain a predetermined position during the measurement mode, and, in response to a predetermined amount of time passing from a time at which the screen begins to be displayed, obtaining state information of the user based on bio information of the user, the bio information being received from a sensor.
US11064939B2
A fluid replacement method including: determining the amount of urine expelled by a patient; infusing via a pump fluid from a first fluid source into a patient; determining an amount of fluid infused into the patient from the first fluid source; adjusting the operating of the pump based on the determined amount of urine expelled and the amount of fluid infused into the patient; setting a desired fluid balance for the patient; setting an amount of at least one additional fluid delivered to the patient, wherein the at least one additional fluid is not pumped into the patient; calculating an actual fluid balance based on the determined urine output, the determined amount of fluid infused into the patient from the first fluid source, and the set amount of said at least one additional fluid delivered to the patient; and automatically controlling the pump based on the actual fluid balance and the set desired fluid balance so the actual fluid balance conforms to the desired fluid balance.
US11064929B2
The instant disclosure relates generally to a tip electrode for delivering irrigant to a distal portion of the tip electrode and irrigated catheter tips incorporating such a tip electrode. The distal portion of the tip electrode can have additional fluid ports on the distal edge of the tip to provide additional fluid flow to that region.
US11064927B2
A system for providing a standard electrocardiogram (ECG) signal for a human body using contactless ECG sensors for outputting to exiting medical equipment or for storage or viewing on a remote device. The system comprises a digital processing module (DPM) adapted to connect to an array of contactless ECG sensors provided in a fabric or the like. A selection mechanism is embedded into the DPM which allows the DPM to identify body parts using the ECG signals of the different ECG sensors and select for each body part the best sensor lead. The DPM may then produce the standard ECG signal using the selected ECG signals for the different body parts detected. The system is adapted to continuously re-examine the selection to ensure that the best leads are selected for a given body part following a movement of the body part, thereby, allowing for continuous and un-interrupted ECG monitoring of the patient.
US11064915B2
A device that enables an assessment or a management of a medical condition in a patient, includes a base member comprising a pair of surface spaced apart from each other to define a thickness of the base member. The base member can be provided as an elongated base member. Markings are disposed on one surface from the pair of surfaces of the elongated base member along a length of the elongated base member. An array of targets is provided with targets being disposed, during use of the device, below a bottom edge of the elongated base member. Coupling members are also provided with each coupling member coupling a respective target from the array of targets to the elongated base member for a reciprocal linear movement along the length of the elongated base member. The device can be affixed to a structure or provided as a mobile device.
US11064910B2
An exercise system may be configured to gather and quantify data related to energy expenditure during physical activity. The exercise system may include at least one force sensing node and a portable hub that is physically separate and distinct from the at least one force sensing node. The at least one force sensing node may be configured to gather data related to energy expenditure during physical activity. The portable hub may be configured to quantify data related to energy expended during physical activity. For example, according to exemplary implementations, the portable hub may be include a processor configured to execute an exercise analysis module. The exercise analysis module may be configured to determine one or more exercise parameters based on an output signal generated at the at least one force sensing node responsive to force exerted on the at least one force sensing node during physical activity.
US11064907B2
A method of avoiding a contaminant which would skew an analyte result in a breath analysis method and of calibrating subject of the breath analysis includes, immediately before the breath analysis method or the collection of breath for the breath analysis method, administering to the subject a predetermined gas composition. A system for analyzing an analyte in breath of a subject while avoiding a local contaminant which would skew an analyte result and calibrating the subject of so that the result of the analyte analysis will be the same regardless of where the test is performed geographically, includes a source of a predetermined gas composition immediately before the breath analysis method or the collection of gas for the breath analysis method, administering to the subject a predetermined gas mixture.
US11064903B2
Apparatus and methods are described including a processor (20) configured to receive first and second sets of extraluminal images of a lumen, the second set being acquired while an endoluminal device is being moved through the lumen. The processor designates at least one of the first set of images as a roadmap image, and designates, within the lumen in the roadmap image, a roadmap pathway (42). A plurality of features (44, 46, 48, 50) that are visible within at least some of the second set of extraluminal images are identified, and an arrangement of three or more of the features within the image are compared to a shape of at least a portion of the roadmap pathway. Based upon the comparing, the identified features are mapped to locations along the roadmap pathway within the roadmap image. Other applications are also described.
US11064900B2
Provided are an ultra-low field nuclear magnetic resonance device and a method for measuring an ultra-low field nuclear resonance image. The ultra-low field nuclear magnetic resonance device includes an AC power supply configured to supply a current to a measurement target in such a manner the current flows to the measurement target, magnetic field measurement means disposed adjacent to the measurement target, and measurement bias magnetic field generation means configured to apply a measurement bias magnetic field corresponding to a proton magnetic resonance frequency of the measurement target. A vibration frequency of the AC power supply matches the proton magnetic resonance frequency of the measurement target, and the magnetic field measurement means measures a nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated from the measurement target.
US11064898B2
System and method for using impedance to determine proximity and orientation of segmented electrodes
A method for implanting a neurostimulation lead within a patient includes measuring impedances of electrodes on the lead in order to correctly position the lead relative to a target tissue region. The electrodes are circumferentially segmented electrodes that are spaced from each other about the longitudinal axis of the lead. When the difference between the impedances of the electrodes exceeds a threshold value, the lead is in the correct position. In accordance with another embodiment, impedance measurements are used to select which one of the electrodes is closest to the target tissue region. By determining which electrode has the highest impedance and which electrode has the lowest impedance, the type of tissue adjacent to each electrode can be determined based on the conductivity properties of the tissue. The target tissue region may be a spinal cord, a posterior longitudinal ligament, white matter, or gray matter.
US11064895B2
Pulse waves of a living body are detected with high accuracy. A pulse wave detection device includes a camera configured to capture an image of the living body a plurality of times through a first green filter and an infrared light filter having light transmission characteristics in a near-infrared light wavelength range within a wavelength range where a light absorption coefficient of oxidized hemoglobin is greater than a light absorption coefficient of reduced hemoglobin, and an image analysis unit configured to analyze a plurality of images of the living body captured by the camera and to detect the pulse waves of the living body. The image analysis unit is configured to detect the pulse waves by detecting a change in intensity of light in the near-infrared light wavelength range indicated by the plurality of images.
US11064893B2
Blood flow of a user can be measured using a sensor. Sensor data based on the measuring of the blood flow can be generated. Based on the sensor data, at least a first physiological biomarker of the blood flow measured by the sensor and at least a first morphological characteristic of the blood flow measured by the sensor can be determined. The user can be authenticated based, at least in part, on the first physiological biomarker and the first morphological characteristic.
US11064883B2
A base for a slit lamp having a table and a frame mounted to the table, the base comprising a carriage configured to support a biomicroscope, a first elongate member extending horizontally through the carriage, and a second elongate member extending horizontally through the carriage. The carriage is slidable axially along the first elongate member and the second elongate member to move the biomicroscope relative to the frame. The second elongate member provides a stabilizing force on the carriage to counteract an upward force exerted by the carriage and the biomicroscope mounted thereon.
US11064879B2
A method for holoscopic, optical coherence tomography for an object, wherein the method includes providing source radiation and splitting the source radiation into illumination radiation and reference radiation, illuminating an illumination field on the object with illumination radiation, said illumination field having an areal extent transverse to the direction of incidence, collecting illumination radiation scattered back from the object as measurement radiation, separating the measurement radiation collected from the object from the illumination radiation, and overlaying the measurement radiation with reference radiation and detecting an interference signal of the overlaid radiations with at least one areal detector with a two-dimensional extent, wherein the object in the illumination field is simultaneously illuminated by more than one spatial radiation mode, wherein the radiation modes of the illumination in the illumination field are spatially and temporally coherent with one another but have a fixed phase difference from one another.
US11064877B2
Improved laryngoscopes are disclosed herein which are capable of aiding operators toward successful intubation outcomes in clinical situations which would be difficult using previously existing tools.
US11064874B2
A dichroic prism assembly (P1-P7) configured to receive light from an object image through an entrance face of the dichroic prism assembly, includes a first prism (P3) and a further dichroic prism assembly (P5, P6, P7) for splitting light in three light components. The first prism has a cross section with at least five corners, and each corner has an inside angle of at least 90 degrees. The corners of the first prism are designed so that an incoming beam which enters the entrance face in a direction parallel to a normal of the entrance face is reflected twice inside the prism and exits the prism through an exit face parallel to a normal of the exit face.
US11064871B2
An endoscope includes a handle connected to a flexible, steerable, kink-resistant insertion tube. An endoscope insertion tube may include a shaft, a lower durometer section proximate to a distal end of the shaft, and a higher durometer section positioned between the lower durometer section and a medium durometer section. The endoscope insertion tube may further include a fourth thermoplastic laminate section proximate to a proximal end of the shaft and having a higher durometer. A method of making an endoscope insertion tube may include inserting a mandrel with one, two, or more lateral slots and a liner into a shaft, wherein the liner is positioned between the mandrel and the shaft, bonding a bonded portion of the liner to an inner surface of the shaft, separating other portion(s) of the liner from the shaft, and inserting a first deflection wire in a gap between the shaft and the unbonded portion(s) of the liner.
US11064869B2
Several embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to medical visualization systems that comprise combinations of disposable and resuable components, such as catheters, functional handles, hubs, optical devices, etc. Other embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to features and aspects of an in-vivo visualization system that comprises an endoscope having a working channel through which a catheter having viewing capabilities is routed. the catheter may obtain viewing capabilities by being constructed as a vision catheter or by having a fiberscope or other viewing device selectively routed through one of its channels. The catheter is preferably of the steerable type so that the distal end of the catheter may be steered from its proximal end as it is advanced with the body. A suitable use for the in-vivo visualization system includes but is not limited to diagnosis and/or treatment of the duodenum, and particularly the biliary tree.
US11064865B2
An endoscope apparatus provided in the invention has forced disposability of a cannula by the means and techniques put in place so that the parts in contact with organic tissues or the detection of container extraction cannot be used, re-used, or if re-used, in a way that aligns with their operating limits. Activation of the cannula is detected and traced using sensors or wireless intercommunication devices so that when a certain time lapses or a certain number of activations after the first activation of the cannula, a limited usage means disables the cannula in mechanical or electrical way to ensure forced disposability of the cannula.
US11064864B2
Provided are a processor device, an endoscope system, and a method of operating a processor device capable of narrowing down a plurality of index values to the index value required to diagnose a lesion. An image obtained by imaging an observation target including a structure is acquired. An index value calculation unit 70 performs an index value calculation process of calculating a plurality of index values obtained by indexing a property of the structure on the basis of the image. An index value arithmetic processing unit 74 controls the index value calculation unit 70 according to a processing order in which a first index value is calculated and then a second index value different from the first index value is calculated among the plurality of index values.
US11064861B2
A dishwasher including a cabinet with a treating chamber having an open face, which is selectively closed by a door assembly. The door assembly has an outer door spaced from an inner door to define an interior space between the outer and inner doors. A stiffener is located between the inner and outer doors.
US11064857B2
A cleaner capable of controlling motor power and a control method thereof are disclosed. The cleaner may include a head suctioning external dirt, a stick communicating with the head, being adjustable in length, and providing a passage through which dirt that is suctioned moves, a length sensor mounted on the stick and sensing a length change of the stick, a motor providing dirt suction power to the head, a speed measurer measuring a movement speed and a movement direction of the head, and a controller controlling power of the motor. The controller may select minimum power for dirt suction of the motor on the basis of at least one of information about the length change of the stick, the movement speed of the head, and the movement direction of the head, and may control the motor to have the selected minimum power. The cleaner can transmit/receive wireless signals on a mobile communication network established in accordance with 5G (Generation) communication.
US11064856B1
A removable dustbin for a robotic vacuum that is wholly separable from all electronic parts thereof including a motor unit such that the dustbin, when separated from the electronic parts, may be safely immersed in water for quick and easy cleaning. The dustbin design further facilitates easy access to the motor for convenient servicing and repair.
US11064855B2
A cleaner includes a suction unit guiding air and dust, a main body including a first cyclone unit separating the air and the dust, which are suctioned through the suction unit, from each other and a second cyclone unit separating the dust from the air discharged from the first cyclone unit, and a guide unit disposed in the main body to partition a first dust storage part, in which the dust separated in the first cyclone unit is stored, and a second dust storage part, in which the dust separated in the second cyclone unit is stored, from each other. The guide unit is separably coupled to the main body, and when the guide unit is separated from the main body, a dust discharge part of the second cyclone unit is exposed to the outside.
US11064852B2
An implement head cleaning system which includes apparatuses and methods of cleaning an implement head. An implement head cleaner including an implement head cleaning base having a base bottom configured for placement on a support surface and having an air flow chamber disposed in a base top covered by an air flow inlet plate which directs an air flow through one or more air inlet aperture elements to egress through an air outlet toward an air flow generator. Materials entrained in material entrainment elements carried by the implement head can be removed by moving the material entrainment elements over the air flow inlet plate through the air flow.
US11064848B2
A tissue paper package not prone to losing shape. Film-packaged tissue paper comprising a pop-up type substantially cuboid bundle of tissue paper packaged with a flexible resin packaging film, and characterized in that air vents for providing communication between the inside and the outside of the package are formed at positions on the packaging film facing short-side surfaces of the bundle of tissue paper where no folded edges are arranged.
US11064845B2
A semi-open bathing device (200) is provided, one aspect of which relates to multi-function showering device, comprising a chair assembly, a plurality of first dispensers (220/222), a supply assembly, a temperature regulator, and a waste water management assembly. In the semi-open bathing device (200), the chair assembly comprises a seat (202) with a hole (204) disposed in the center of the seat (202). A backrest (206) and two sidewalls (214) are coupled to the seat (202) respectively thereby forming a front opening for the chair assembly. The backrest (206) provides a support for the bather and the two sidewalls (214) are configured to contain the spillage of water. The plurality of first dispensers (220/222) is positioned onto the sidewalls (214) and/or the backrest (206) for dispensing water and/or air towards the bather. The supply assembly is located at backside of the backrest (206) for connecting to a water supply and an electricity supply.
US11064836B2
A beverage brewer includes a container, a container collar, a brewing material holder, a mesh element, and a drive assembly. The container has an open top, a closed sidewall, and a closed bottom. The container collar is configured to cover a rim of the open top. The brewing material holder is configured to hold brewing material and to be suspended from the container collar and into an interior of the container. The brewing material holder includes a sidewall having an opening, an open top, and a bottom. The mesh element covers the opening in the sidewall of the brewing material holder. The drive assembly is positionable on the container collar and is configured to be mechanically coupled to and rotate the brewing material holder.
US11064832B1
A parcel locker system is disclosed that includes a rigid container having an external surface, an internal area that is configured to receive and hold a parcel, a door that is configured to be reversibly opened and closed, a door lock that is configured to be wirelessly activated and deactivated, a digital indicator located on the external surface (which signals whether the door lock is activated or deactivated), a means for attaching the rigid container to a floor or wall surface, and a power source. The system further includes a camera that is configured and oriented to capture video content of a delivery person located adjacent to the rigid container and wirelessly transmit such video content. In addition, the system includes a software application that is configured to receive transmitted video content from the camera and, according to a user's command, wirelessly issue an instruction to the door lock to deactivate for a period of time.
US11064817B2
A product display tray is provided including one or more arms including engagement members. The product display tray can also include a base having one or more tracks receiving the one or more arms, wherein the base is slidable along the one or more arms from a first position to a second position. The product display tray can also include a handle. The product display tray can also include a latch, wherein the latch is operably connected to the handle, wherein the latch has an engaged position and a disengaged position, and wherein the latch is in the engaged position when the base is in the first position and the base is operable to enter the second position when the latch is in the disengaged position.
US11064813B2
The disclosure discloses a softness-adjustable mattress, including an outer lining, an outer lining zipper, and a bottom lining, wherein the bottom lining is positioned on the outer lining, the outer lining zipper is positioned between the outer lining and the bottom lining, a lying-down mechanism is mounted on an inner lower wall face of the outer lining, and an inflation mechanism is mounted on the lying-down mechanism. The beneficial effects of the disclosure is having the characteristic of being quickly mounted and dismounted; through an air cushion the overall comfort degree of the mattress can be enhanced, and can prevent the integral mattress shape from collapsing; the air cushion can be inflated by the inflation controller at all times, thereby ensuring the stability of the air cushion; users can lie down on the wavy cotton, which improves the users' comfort degree and brings convenience to people's life. Moreover, the edges or corners of the air cushion of the disclosure are capable of maintaining a certain shape even under some pressure. Preferably, the air cushion of the disclosure has excellent durability.
US11064809B2
A foldable easel blank includes a main panel defining a first side and a second side, the first side positioned opposite from the second side, the main panel defining a locking aperture extending through the main panel from a front main surface to a rear main surface; a support panel hingedly connected to the main panel, the support panel defining a locking tab configured to engage the locking aperture; a first side panel hingedly connected to the first side of the main panel by a first side hinge; a second side panel hingedly connected to the second side of the main panel by a second side hinge; and a base panel positioned between the first side hinge and the second side hinge, the base panel configured to engage the first side panel and the second side panel to form a base stand.
US11064805B1
Disclosed herein are modular, height adjustable tables that can be quickly assembled and disassembled without the use of tools. Furthermore, the modular tables disclosed herein can be easily transported due to their lightweight and quick assembly and disassembly process. In addition, the assembly and disassembly process of the tables disclosed herein may not require anything outside of a table top and table legs.
US11064799B2
A brush for a vehicle washing system comprising: flexible elements (2) intended to come into contact with the vehicle for cleaning and/or polishing and/or drying; a central annular support (3) from which the flexible elements (2) extend; a shaft (4) rotating about its own axis (40) of rotation, the shaft (4) crossing the central support (3) and placing the central support (3) in rotation about the axis (40) of rotation; the central support (3) comprising a lateral surface (35), from which the flexible elements (2) extend, which is inclined with respect to the axis (40) of rotation of the shaft (4).
US11064797B2
An apparatus for holding a mobile device stationary within a storage region of a medium of transportation, such as the pocket of a commercial airline, includes a plurality of regions. Deformable regions of the apparatus and corresponding flaps permit a user to bend the regions to an open position, place the mobile device within the flaps, and the deformation in a reverse direction serves to snugly fit and hold the mobile device in-place. In other variations, a magnetic holder, tacky surfaces and other implementations serve to hold the mobile device in-place. In numerous designs, extensive features are provided to hold the mobile device within a pocket or other compartment of a transport vehicle. Numerous materials and combinations of materials serve to permit these implementations.
US11064796B1
A system includes knobs on an item of gear and a latch attached to a carrier. Each knob has a neck and a head with a larger diameter. First and second sliders fit into a latch frame. Hooks on the sliders form expandable apertures. To attach, the knob is pushed against the slider hooks to expand the aperture. After the head passes through the aperture, a spring biases the hooks together so the aperture width is smaller than the head diameter, capturing the knob. A carrier adapter adapts the latch to a carrier. Adapters are available for duty belts, MOLLE-equipped carriers, and horizontal slots.
US11064795B2
A collapsible stool entertainment system. The collapsible stool entertainment system includes an elongated rod having a first end opposite a second end. A seat portion is affixed to the first end and a base portion is affixed to the second end. A plurality of teeth extends from a lower surface of the base portion to engage a ground surface for additional stability. In some embodiments, the second end of the elongated rod is pivotally secured to an upper surface of the base portion via a ball-and-socket joint system, wherein the second end comprises a ball removably securable within a socket disposed on the base portion.
US11064794B2
Backpacks with cooperatively adjusted hip belt segments and compression strap segments. A backpack includes a pack body, a shoulder strap, and a belt assembly. The pack body includes a back panel and an exterior panel. The belt assembly includes a compression strap segment, a hip belt segment, an adjustment strap, and a releasable fastener. The backpack includes a belt assembly waist loop with a belt assembly waist perimeter. Each adjustment strap is configured to selectively adjust each of the pack volume and the belt assembly waist perimeter. The belt assembly is configured such that, responsive to the user applying a tension force to the adjustment strap, each of a pack volume and the belt assembly waist perimeter decreases by a respective degree that depends upon a ratio of the force required to decrease the pack volume to the force required to decrease the belt assembly waist perimeter.
US11064792B2
A carrier system for use with a body armor garment that distributes the shoulder loads produced by equipment carried or worn by military or law enforcement personnel, away from the user's shoulders and comfortably to the hips. Heavy shoulder loads, which typically cause chronic back pain and can lead to compression of the spine, are significantly mitigated. The carrier system has a vertical back support and a belt for securing the device around the waist of the user. In addition to alleviating shoulder fatigue and spine compression, the device is light, comfortable, durable, adjustable and easy to maintain.
US11064791B2
A system for providing a product, such as a lipstick, the color of which is chosen by a subject. The system includes a viewing device for showing a subject or an object for which the color is chosen, a color palette from which the subject can choose a color, and a link to a production center for creating the product according to the choice of the subject. The system also includes a color-modifying device for modifying the color chosen by the subject.
US11064789B2
The present invention is directed towards a cosmetic assembly, of use for the treatment of keratin fibres, comprising a cosmetic composition having a melting point of between 40° C. and 120° C., and comprising at least 15% by weight of meltable compound(s), relative to the total weight of the composition; and a device (1) comprising a mould (2), the mould (2) comprising at least one cavity (5), into which or each of which at least one of said fibres can be at least partially introduced, for the purposes of moulding said composition onto at least one part of said fibre(s) present in the cavity or cavities (5). The present invention is also directed towards a process for cosmetic treatment of one or more keratin fibres.
US11064786B2
A device for applying a liquid or pulverulent medium is provided. The device includes an application element that has a flexible width and that is attached between two support elements and includes at least one lateral delimiting element for the purposes of a controlled and fast application of this liquid or pulverulent medium. A kit that includes the device and a media container is provided.
US11064784B2
The present disclosure may relate to a printing method, system of a nail printing apparatus, the nail printing apparatus and a medium thereof. The nail printing apparatus may include a touch screen. The touch screen may display a first interface. The first interface may include a third region and a second region. The third region may include a plurality of second patterns. The printing method may include displaying a user's nail model in the second region. The printing method may include displaying a first pattern in the second region. The user's nail model may overlap at least a portion of the first pattern. The at least a portion of the first pattern overlapping the user's nail model may be used as a printing pattern. The printing method may include printing the printing pattern based on a printing instruction. The present disclosure may reduce the pattern to be printed, save ink, prolong a usage time of the ink cartridge, and help reduce costs. The present disclosure may reduce two processes of coating anti-overflow glue before printing and cleaning the anti-overflow glue after printing, thereby improving the nail printing efficiency.
US11064781B2
A method and device for selectively entraining hair strands from the scalp having at least one hooking applicator, the at least one hooking applicator employing a hook that rotates to entrain the hair strands, a hair color container having hair color therein and a way to apply the hair color to the entrained hair stands includes a hooking applicator, hair color container, and trigger mechanism. The trigger mechanism operates to entrain hair using the hooking application and apply hair color to the hair from the hair color container.
US11064778B2
A carryall container, includes at least one first half-shell, which is open and can be closed, at a free edge thereof, by a second half-shell, in order to define at least one closed configuration, in which inside the half-shells at least one internal compartment is defined for accommodating objects. The second half-shell is movable between the closed configuration and at least one open configuration, for free access to the compartment. One face of the first half-shell, which is adjacent to the free edge, has at least one door arranged, in at least one first position, so as to close a respective inlet provided on the first half-shell for further access to the compartment.
US11064776B2
Disclosed herein is a low profile expandable ring structure comprising a plurality of coupled blocks that each have a certain degree of translational movement with respect to each other. Each block has one or more downward curved loops or tubes protruding on the front side of the block which are inserted into openings on an adjacent block. A tensioned spring, passed through an internal channel of the coupled blocks, maintains the ring structure in a closed appearance but allows for expansion of the expandable ring structure through the translational movement of the blocks. The low-profile nature allows the expandable ring structure to be comfortable for the wearer.
US11064773B2
An apparatus to be used as the slider on a zipper chain is disclosed. The apparatus may include a slider that may be configured with an attachment that may add decorative elements to the slider. The attachment may be configured to the slider using a mount that may include an inner opening that may receive the slider.
US11064767B2
A fastening device including a case unit and a spool is provided. The case unit includes a wall forming a receiving space, an upper opening communicated with the receiving space, and a lower opening opposite to the upper opening and communicated with the receiving space. The spool is within the receiving space. The spool is limited by the wall, and the wall prohibits the spool from leaving the receiving space from the upper opening.
US11064760B2
A pair of shoes that includes a left foot shoe and a right foot shoe. Each of the shoes include an upper shoe portion and a sole coupled to the upper shoe portion. The sole provides an athletic positioning of a left big toe area of the left shoe at a lower position than a left heel area of the left shoe and at a lower position than an outer small toe area of the left shoe and wherein, from an inner edge to an outer edge of the left shoe, the left heel area has substantially no slope.
US11064747B2
An outerwear article comprises a sleeve and a hand covering. The sleeve defines and extends from a shoulder end and an open end. The sleeve includes a liner, an outer shell extending around the liner, and a pocket defined between the outer shell and the liner. The pocket has an opening on an inside of the sleeve and on a side of the pocket nearest the open end. The hand covering is sewn to the sleeve adjacent the opening via a seam line. The hand covering is rotatable about the seam line from a storage position within the pocket to a use position extending from the seam line out the open end of the sleeve to fit over a wearer's hand.
US11064746B2
A system and method of selectively connecting at least two articles of clothing is provided. First and second articles, which may comprise a glove and jacket sleeve or cuff, have mating geometries and at least one fastener to securely and selectively connect the two articles. In certain embodiments, magnets are provided as fasteners to connect the articles. For example, in certain embodiments, a method and system is provided that comprises features adapted to allow connection of an accessory (e.g. ski glove) to a portion of another article (e.g. jacket).
US11064742B2
A bib having a first panel and a storage container. The first panel has a collar constructed in a first end. The storage container has a first and a second side, an upper opening and a lower closed end. The first panel also has a second end which is attached to an upper end of the second side of the storage container in order to capture spillage while the bib is in use. The first panel can also be folded down into the storage container and secured by a fastener about the upper opening of the storage container.
US11064741B2
An aerosol-generating element includes first and second electrical connection terminals; a first electrical element being an aerosol-generator connected between the first and second electrical connection terminals; and a second electrical element connected between the first and second electrical connection terminals. A first barrier element is connected between the first electrical element and the second electrical connection terminal, and a second barrier element is connected between the second electrical element and the first electrical connection terminal. The first and second barrier elements have opposite asymmetric conductance.
US11064729B2
A wrapper for a smoking article has a base web and a plurality of crenellated bands, each having a diffusivity value in the range of 0 to about 0.2 cm/sec. The add-on material can be applied by gravure printing in a single pass in a chevron pattern such that an apex of the element is co-linear with substantially symmetrically spaced points on a trailing, outer edge of an adjacent chevron element. Testing elements may be simultaneously printed with the add-on material to monitor diffusivity and/or presence of add-on material.
US11064727B2
A sensor apparatus may include a conduit structure including an inner surface defining a conduit extending through an interior of the conduit structure, an inlet structure coupled to an end of the conduit structure, and a plurality of sensor devices in hydrodynamic contact with the conduit. The inlet structure may couple with an outlet end of an external tobacco element to hold the outlet end of the external tobacco element in fluid communication with an inlet opening of the conduit structure, such that the conduit structure may receive a generated aerosol from the external tobacco element at the inlet opening, and draw an instance of aerosol through the conduit towards an outlet opening. The instance of aerosol may include at least a portion of the generated aerosol. Each sensor device may generate sensor data indicating a pressure of the instance of aerosol through a separate portion of the conduit.
US11064726B2
An extraction method of a flavor constituent comprises: a step A for heating a tobacco raw material which is subjected to an alkali treatment; and a step B for bringing a release component released in the gas phase in the step A into contact with a collection solvent at normal temperature until any time from when a first condition is satisfied to when a second condition is satisfied. The total amount of saccharides contained in the tobacco raw material is 9.0 wt % or less when a gross weight of the tobacco raw material in the dry state is 100 wt %. The first condition is determined based on variations in the pH of the collection solution. The second condition is determined based on the remaining amount of nicotine component.
US11064725B2
Disclosed is material for use with apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The material includes a mixture of smokable material and elements. Each of the elements includes a closed circuit of heating material that is heatable by penetration with a varying magnetic field.
US11064724B2
A food processing apparatus including a tank having an inlet end for receiving food product and an outlet end for discharging food product, the tank having a rotatable auger mounted in a compartment, the auger for advancing food product within the compartment from the inlet end toward the outlet end, the auger including flights having a flight wall with a radial edge, a clearance space being defined between the radial edge of the flights and a solid, imperforate wall portion of an inner wall. One of the inner wall and the flight wall may include a perforated wall portion. A transition zone includes a moveable surface to contain food product while in use.
US11064721B2
A drying step of drying Gynura procumbens at 0° C. or more and 40° C. or less; and a cutting/pulverizing step of cutting or pulverizing the Gynura procumbens dried in the drying step while keeping at 0° C. or more and 40° C. or less are included.
US11064715B2
An individual frozen drink dispenser includes a housing having a base configured to support a blender cup, a dispensing chamber disposed above the blender cup and configured to support a frozen beverage container containing frozen ingredients suitable for preparing a frozen drink, at least one dispensing mechanism configured to move from a pre-dispense position to a dispense position in which the dispensing mechanism drives the frozen ingredients from the frozen beverage container into the blender cup, and a drive mechanism coupled to the housing and configured to drive the movement of the dispensing mechanism from the pre-dispense position to the dispense position. A method of preparing a frozen drink is further disclosed.
US11064712B2
Systems for dispensing chocolate, in one aspect including a generally fluid-tight exterior housing with first volume; a vertical support member; a base support member; a dispenser guiding member within the first volume; an extruder connection member extending through the housing and having a first end within the housing and a second end outside of the housing, defining a pivot axis; an extruder member connected to the first end; a lever connected to the second end; at least one extruder guide member within the first volume and connected to the extruder member; and at least one extruder guide rail connected to the housing within the first volume and capable of receiving the at least one extruder guide member; and where manual actuation of the lever pivots the extruder member in cooperation with the at least one extruder guide member.
US11064710B2
The invention relates to a method of separating components from milk, and the apparatus used therefor. The invention also relates to compositions prepared from the separated components. The present invention relates to nutritional milk compositions and products which are designed to include per serving size a specified percentage range of one or more components separated from milk. The compositions of the present invention can optionally include non-essential but nutritionally functional components. The complete nutritional milk compositions of the present invention can be provided as unflavored milks, flavored milks, ice creams and yogurts.
US11064709B2
Systems and apparatus are provided for maintaining an ultra low oxygen concentration in a shipping container for the purpose of preventing spoilage of perishable food products. The system and apparatus may contain a composition of a mixture of gases including one or more of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and another inert gas, wherein the mixture of gases positively pressurizes the shipping container with an ultra low oxygen concentration. The system and apparatus may use one or more sensors to monitor the composition of the mixture of gases, and may use one or more controllers to release the compressed gases into the interior of the container. The controller may release the compressed gases at a variable rate of release sufficient to maintain the ultra low oxygen concentration and to ensure consistent concentrations of the mixture of gases with the container.
US11064708B2
A system and method for processing shrimp and other shellfish species are disclosed. Embodiments of the disclosed system and method provide a shellfish product having a longer refrigerated shelf-life than experienced with conventional processing methods and the shellfish product produced retains more of its original sensory qualities, such as texture, flavor and odor, than is retained by current processing methods.
US11064692B2
A bait box including a housing; a feeding location arranged in the housing and configured for a poison bait, wherein the feeding location is arranged in an air cushion in the housing so that the feeding location is accessible for a rodent from an outside of the bait box through an entry arranged at a lower end of the housing; and a separation element which defines a liquid space with a liquid within the housing when the liquid rises outside of the housing above a threshold level above which accessibility of the feeding location is not provided to the rodent any more, wherein the liquid space extends from the threshold level to the separation element and separates the feeding location from the liquid space, wherein the housing is closed air tight besides the entry so that the air cushion is captured in the housing.
US11064691B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods related to the suppression of invasive plant species by laying down a fabric over beds of such invasive plants. A watercraft with a fabric laying mechanism is provided with the mechanism automatically guiding the fabric from a fabric stockpile to a frame that spreads the fabric prior to the fabric being laid over the underwater plant bed. The watercraft may be provided with a device for dispensing material over the fabric that has been laid down to weigh down or hold down the fabric. Preferably, the fabric is biodegradable and the material is natural to the area. In one implementation, the fabric (e.g jute burlap) is coarsely woven from natural plant fibers.
US11064688B2
One embodiment provides a system, including: a first end that screws into a light bulb socket; an internal light source; an electric insect control mechanism disposed around and proximate to the internal light source; and a visible light source disposed at an opposite end with respect to the first end. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11064683B2
An animal relocation system and method comprising a perimeter net system a trapping net system, and a flushing device, wherein the flushing device channels the animal through the perimeter net system and into the trapping net.
US11064673B2
The present disclosure provides novel endophyte strains or cultures thereof that have a symbiotic relationship with plants. The present disclosure further provides methods of improving seed vitality, biotic and abiotic stress resistance, plant health and yield under both stressed and unstressed environmental conditions, comprising inoculating a seed with the novel endophyte strains and cultivating a plant therefrom.
US11064671B2
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CE1661319, CE1660344, and/or CE1660404 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CE1661319, CE1660344, and/or CE1660404 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CE1661319, CE1660344, and/or CE1660404 in a breeding program.
US11064669B2
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CW1660188, EW1660376, CW1660229, CW1660193, CW1660068, EW1660140, CW1660195, EW1660025, AND/OR EW1660054 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CW1660188, EW1660376, CW1660229, CW1660193, CW1660068, EW1660140, CW1660195, EW1660025, AND/OR EW1660054 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CW1660188, EW1660376, CW1660229, CW1660193, CW1660068, EW1660140, CW1660195, EW1660025, AND/OR EW1660054 in a breeding program.
US11064666B2
The present invention relates to a watermelon plant showing resistance against potyviruses, wherein the watermelon plant may comprise one or more of resistance conferring alleles of QTL1, QTL2 and QTL3 and wherein the said QTLs are as present in or obtainable from a watermelon plant, representative seed of which was deposited under deposit accession number NCIMB 42537, 42536, 42535 respectively.
US11064661B2
The present invention can provide an optimum sensory temperature and can increase productivity by a system having a variable fan provided in a vinyl greenhouse, receiving optimum temperature (A) and humidity (B), detecting internal temperature (A′) and humidity (B′), calculating temperature (A″) according to the humidity, and providing the temperature (A″) suitable for the humidity (B′) detected through an operational control of the variable fan.
US11064657B2
A baler having a frame, a feed system coupled to the frame, a baling chamber for receiving crop from the feed system, and a plunger assembly reciprocally compressing the crop. The baling chamber defines an extrusion axis therethrough. The plunger assembly is at least partially positioned within and movable with respect to the baling chamber. The plunger assembly has at least a first plunger motion aligned with the extrusion axis. The baler also includes a feed system cap having at least a first cap motion aligned with the extrusion axis, the first cap motion being synchronized with the first plunger motion. At least one of the plunger assembly and the feed system cap has a second motion that is not aligned with the extrusion axis.
US11064656B1
A cleaning system for an agricultural combine includes a cleaning shoe including a chaffer having an upstream extremity and a downstream extremity, a cleaning fan for establishing a flow of air upwardly through the chaffer, and a transverse chaffer dam mounted proximate to the downstream extremity transversely obstructing a crop layer flow path extending over the chaffer from the upstream extremity to the downstream extremity while permitting air and threshed crop material to flow thereover and thereunder through a transverse opening between the chaffer dam and the downstream extremity.
US11064654B2
A system for a header assembly that has a center frame configured to pivot relative to an adapter frame about at least one center axis, a center actuator coupled to the center frame to selectively provide a biasing force thereto, a first arm assembly configured to pivot relative to the center frame about at least a first arm axis, a first actuator coupled to the first arm assembly to selectively provide a biasing force thereto, a controller in communication with the center actuator and the first actuator to selectively alter performance characteristics of the center actuator and the first actuator, and a user interface in communication with the controller and having at least a first option and a second option. Wherein, the controller adjusts the performance characteristics of both the center actuator and the first actuator when the user interface is transitioned between the first option and the second option.
US11064651B2
A disc opener unit for an agricultural implement has a down pressure adjustment device that automatically adjusts the amount of down pressure applied on a furrowing disc based on strain measurements taken by a strain gauge or load cell. The strain gauge, which may be mounted to an arm that is used to set the position of a depth setting gauge wheel, provides feedback to a processor that in turn controls the amount of hydraulic fluid in a hydraulic cylinder to adjust the down force applied on the disc. The amount of down pressure is therefore adjusted in substantially real-time in response to changes in field conditions, which improves furrow depth consistency and reduces wear on the gauge wheel and its components.
US11071240B2
A power converting apparatus includes: a capacitor including a plurality of cells, with a number and arrangement of the cells being determined according to characteristics of a motor; power converters separately disposed on opposite sides of the capacitor; a first cooler including a plurality of cooling tubes through which cooling water flows, located between the capacitor and the power converters, and cooling the capacitor and the power converters by being brought into surface contact with the capacitor and the power converters, with a length of any one of the plurality of the cooling tubes being determined according to the characteristics of the motor; and a housing in which the capacitor, the power converters, and the first cooler are assembled.
US11071235B2
Method and apparatus includes a chassis to house circuitry, the chassis having first and second surfaces and an air inlet. An airflow moving device may create an airflow in a first direction that is communicated to the chassis via the air inlet. A wall structure may have a height that extends up from a base of the wall structure in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction of the airflow, where the base of the wall structure directly contacts the first surface and forms an elongated opening along a top surface of the wall structure and in between the second surface of the chassis. The airflow may flow over the top surface of the wall structure.
US11071231B2
An electronic apparatus has a heat-exchanger within a housing exchanges heat between internal and external fluids without direct contact between the fluids. The internal fluid circulates within the housing and the external fluid is received external from the housing and output external from the housing 120. The housing includes is a heater; impellers; a controller for controlling the heater and the flow of fluids through the heat-exchanger; and temperature and humidity sensors. The controller receives temperature and humidity data from the sensors; processes the data to indicate a current dew point within the housing; and compares the current dew point with a current location temperature at or adjacent the heat-exchanger. If the current location temperature is at or below the current dew point, the controller raises the temperature at at least one location on the heat-exchanger and/or activates the heat source to raise the temperature.
US11071230B2
A heat dissipation structure of a heat generating component includes a heat conductive plate that includes a heat receiving connecting part thermally connected to the heat generating component and a heat dissipation connecting part thermally connected to the chassis and an air cooling fan that generates cooling air for cooling the heat conductive plate. The heat conductive plate further includes a first heat dissipation area from which heat is dissipated by flowing the cooling air along a surface of the plate and a second heat dissipation area that is bent and extends from the first heat dissipation area so as to cross an advancing direction of the cooling air that flows along the surface of the plate at the first heat dissipation area, and from which heat is dissipated by receiving the cooling air that has flown along the surface of the plate at the first heat dissipation area.
US11071227B2
An accessory rod assembly for positioning cables and cable management accessories in a cable manager includes a base member, an accessory rod, and a rotatable knob. The base member has a front, a rear, and two sides, the front including a forward-facing socket, the rear including a first hook protruding rearwardly therefrom, and one of the two sides including a threaded portion. The accessory rod has an extruded construction and a generally uniform, at least partially cylindrical cross-sectional shape along its length. The at least partially cylindrical cross-sectional shape is defined by two opposed arcuate portions interconnected by a midsection portion. Adjacent edges of the two opposed arcuate portions define a drop-in T-slot channel that extends along the length of the accessory rod. The rotatable knob has a handle and a threaded end received within the threaded portion of the base member.
US11071224B2
A novel, highly convenient or reliable functional panel is provided. A novel, highly convenient or reliable method for manufacturing a functional panel is provided. The functional panel includes a first base; a second base having a region overlapping with the first base; a bonding layer that bonds the first base to the second base; and an insulating layer in contact with the first base, the second base, and the bonding layer. With this structure, an opening which is formed easily in a region where the bonding layer is in contact with the first base or the second base can be filled with the insulating layer, which can prevent impurities from being diffused into the functional layer located in a region surrounded by the first base, the second base, and the bonding layer that bonds the first base to the second base.
US11071222B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first glass plate, a second glass plate opposite to the first glass plate, and a side member to surround a space between the first glass plate and the second glass plate, and a touch screen display disposed in the space and viewed through at least a portion of the first glass plate. The first glass plate includes a rectangular planar part including a first edge, which faces outward in a first direction and has a first length, and a second edge which extends perpendicularly to the first edge and has a second length longer than the first length, a first curved part including a first surface which extends from the first edge to a first part of the side member and faces the first part, and a second curved part including a second surface.
US11071219B2
A display device includes a display screen, a cover plate disposed at an upper surface of the display screen, and a connection structure having a bracket. The bracket is disposed on a surface of the cover plate away from the display screen. At least a part of a contact area between the bracket and the cover plate overlaps with the display screen along a first direction. The first direction is a direction perpendicular to a display surface of the display screen.
US11071203B2
The present invention relates to a circuit substrate arrangement comprising a base layer (2) made from aluminium, a circuit layer (3) made from copper, a dielectric layer (4) arranged between the base layer (2) and the circuit layer (3), an opening (5) passing through the base layer (2), the circuit layer (3) and the dielectric layer (4) and an electrical contact (6) between the base layer (2) and the circuit layer (3), wherein the electrical contact (6) comprises a rivet (7), wherein a frictionally connected joint (8) is formed between the rivet (7) and the base layer (2) and wherein an integrally bonded joint (9) is formed between the rivet (7) and the circuit layer (3).
US11071201B2
An electrical component is configured to allow electrical cables to be mounted directly to a package substrate, such that electrical traces of the package substrate directly place the electrical cables in electrical communication with an integrated circuit that is mounted to the package substrate without passing through any separable interfaces of an electrical connector.
US11071196B2
An electronic device module may include: a board; a ground electrode disposed on a first surface of the board; a sealing portion disposed on the first surface of the board; electronic devices mounted on the first surface of the board such that at least one of the electronic devices is embedded in the sealing portion; a first shielding wall connected to the ground electrode and disposed along a side surface of the sealing portion; and a shielding layer formed of a conductive material and disposed along a surface formed by the sealing portion and the first shielding wall.
US11071195B1
A mount for connecting a heat sink to a PCB may include a threaded post extending along an axis, a first barrel adjacent to the post along an axis and having a larger axial cross-section than the post, and a threaded second barrel defining an opposite end of the mount from the post and having a larger axial cross-section than the first barrel.
US11071194B2
A system and method for fabricating accelerator cavities comprises forming at least two half cavities and joining the half cavities with a longitudinal seal. The half cavities can comprise at least one of aluminum, copper, tin, and copper alloys. The half cavities can be coated with a superconductor or combination of materials configured to form a superconductor coating.
US11071193B2
A device for producing a non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma and an active space including such a device are disclosed. In an embodiment a device includes a first housing, in which a piezoelectric transformer is arranged and a second housing, in which a control circuit is arranged, the control circuit configured to apply an input voltage to the piezoelectric transformer, wherein the first housing comprises a coating configured to eradicate irritant gases.
US11071191B2
An extreme ultraviolet radiation source is provided, including a vessel and a gas scrubber. The vessel has a gas inlet from which a cleaning gas is supplied into the vessel and a gas outlet from which the cleaning gas exits the vessel. The gas scrubber is disposed within the vessel, arranged such that the cleaning gas leaves the vessel through the gas outlet after flowing through the gas scrubber. The gas scrubber has a number of gas passages to allow the cleaning gas to flow through, and the sizes of the gas passages vary according to the distance between each of the gas passages and the gas outlet.
US11071190B2
An electrostatic discharge device includes at least two conductive materials and at least one electrostatic eliminating circuit. The conductive materials are attached to the outer wall of an insulating hollow tube. The conductive materials separate from each other and overlap in a radial direction of the insulating hollow tube. Static charges are accumulated on the insulating hollow tube to form an electrostatic voltage across the conductive materials. The electrostatic eliminating circuit is electrically connected to the conductive materials and disconnected from a grounding terminal. The electrostatic eliminating circuit receives and eliminates the static charges through the conductive materials to reduce the electrostatic voltage.
US11071187B1
A circadian entrainment enhancement device includes a housing, a first directional light source, a second directional light source, and a driver. During daytime, the driver turns on the first directional light source with a high melanopic ratio to enhance the daytime circadian entrainment of a user. During nighttime, the driver turns on the second directional light source with a low melanopic ratio to enhance the nighttime circadian entrainment of a user. A more advanced version of the present disclosure uses a light sensor, a memory module, and a computation module to calculate the necessary light output of the device by factoring the ambient light level into consideration. An even more advanced version of the present disclosure uses a distance sensor to adjust the light level of the light sources according to the distance between the device and the user.
US11071182B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to adjust device control information. The example apparatus comprises a light drive waveform generator to obtain metadata corresponding to media and generate device control information based on the metadata, the device control information to inform a lighting device to enable consecutive light pulses; an effect engine to apply an attack parameter and a decay parameter to consecutive light pulses corresponding to the device control information, the attack parameter and the decay parameter based on the metadata to affect a shape of the consecutive light pulses; and a color timeline generator to generate color information based on the metadata, the color information to inform the lighting device to change a color state.
US11071175B2
The present disclosure related to an electric grill's housing, controller, and a mounting bracket which mounts the controller to the housing. The mounting bracket is generally hollow and forms a thermal barrier between the controller and the housing, wherein the thermal barrier protects the controller from heat generated in the housing. As a result, the controller does not require insulation and may include lower temperature rated components. Moreover, the mounting bracket may have metallic tabs which interface with spring elements on the controller, thereby fastening the controller to the bracket. These spring elements and metallic tabs may be in electric communication with the housing, thereby allowing the controller to act as an electric ground with respect to the housing.
US11071174B2
Articles for emitting infrared energy comprising a nanostructured member including a plurality of nanotubes, the member being configured to emit infrared energy when an electrical current is applied; a reflecting member configured to direct at least a portion of the emitted infrared energy in a desired direction for heating a remotely-situated target, and optionally a spacer situated between the nanostructured member and the reflecting member to maintain a predetermined spacing there between, the predetermined spacing selected to minimize destructive interference between the infrared energy emitted by the nanostructured member and the infrared energy reflected by the reflecting member. In alternative embodiments, a carbonaceous member may be substituted for the nanostructured member.
US11071173B2
A communication device includes a communication part configured to establish a connection to either a first device or a second device, and a controller configured to control the communication part. The controller is configured to send a predetermined notice to the second device before disconnecting the connection with the second device in a predetermined operation mode to switch the connection from the second device to the first device, but the controller does not make the predetermined notice in other cases.
US11071161B2
The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a gateway. The gateway detects that a procedure for activating or deactivating a bearer has been initiated. The gateway receives a first modify bearer or modify access bearers request message for the same PDN connection and UE as the bearer activation or deactivation procedure is intended for. The gateway detects a bearer mismatch between a first set of bearers and a second set of bearers known by the gateway and associated with said same PDN connection and UE. The gateway accepts, during a time interval, the received modify bearer or modify access bearers request message even though the bearer mismatch has been detected.
US11071157B2
A first base station receives from a second base station, at least one listen before talk (LBT) parameter based on one or more results of one or more LBT processes performed by the second base station on one or more licensed assisted access (LAA) cells. The first base station transmitsg to the second base station and based on the at least one LBT parameter, a request message to add the second base station for dual connectivity of a wireless device. The first base station transmits to the wireless device, configuration parameters of the one or more LAA cells for communication with the second base station.
US11071152B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify that a radio resource control connection is to be established for evolved packet system fallback or inter radio access technology fallback from New Radio for a voice call. The UE may determine that an establishment cause received from a network access stratum (NAS) layer does not indicate high priority access. The UE may override the establishment cause such that the establishment cause indicates a mobile originated (MO) voice call based at least in part on determining that the establishment cause received from the NAS layer does not indicate high priority access. The UE may perform an access barring check of an MO voice call based at least in part on overriding the establishment cause such that the establishment cause indicates an MO voice call. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11071149B2
Systems and methods of performing a RACH procedure in a MulteFire scenario are described. An eMTC UE communicates with an eNB on an anchor channel at a predetermined frequency of an unlicensed band and data channels on other frequency hopping channels of the unlicensed band. The UE receives a PBCH signal with System Information Broadcast Anchor (SIB-A-MF) scheduling information, and a SIB-A-MF after the PBCH. The SIB-A-MF indicates a RAC) resource configuration for a RACH procedure and dwell time of the data channels. The dwell time of the anchor channel is smaller than that of the data channels. The anchor channel includes a UL RACH resource for transmission of a RACH Request. The UE transmits UL RACH messages on UL resources indicated by the SIB-A-MF and receives DL RACH messages on different data channels.
US11071136B2
A system and method for multiplexing traffic. A wireless device such as a base station may schedule a first transmission of first data (e.g., latency tolerant data) to a first UE on first resources, and transmit second data (e.g., low latency data) to a second UE on a portion of the first resources. The base station may signal a first indicator e.g. via Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling to the first UE indicating that the first UE is to monitor for a second indicator that itself indicates the presence of second data on the first resources. The base station may then signal a second indicator to the first UE to indicate the presence of the second data on the first resources. By using the first indicator to initiate the monitoring of the second indicator, the first UE can reduce the amount of monitoring it needs to perform if there is no second data traffic in a certain period of time or in a certain frequency band.
US11071134B2
The present disclosure describes methods, user equipment, and base stations for sending feedback information. One example method includes: sending scheduling information on a downlink control channel to user equipment, wherein the downlink control channel is in a downlink subframe which belongs to a preconfigured downlink subframe set, and the scheduling information is used for scheduling downlink data; determining an uplink subframe for receiving feedback information corresponding to the downlink data, wherein the preconfigured downlink subframe set is a set of downlink subframes that are associated with the uplink subframe and that are of all carriers configured for the user equipment by the base station; sending PUCCH resource indication information to the user equipment for indicating a PUCCH resource.
US11071131B2
A base station used as a first base station in a wireless communication system including the first base station, a second base station that communicates with the first base station, and a user equipment that communicates with the first base station includes: a reception unit that receives a parameter used for generating a downlink physical data channel and data to be transmitted toward the user equipment from the second base station; a generating unit that generates the downlink physical data channel by performing processing of Layer 1 on the data using the parameter; and a transmission unit that transmits the generated downlink physical data channel.
US11071119B2
An apparatus (1 or 3) adjusts a bandwidth, throughput, or radio resource used for device-to-device (D2D) transmission from a remote terminal (1) to a relay terminal (2), based on an amount of pending uplink data in the relay terminal (2) to be transmitted from the relay terminal (2) to a base station (3). In this way, for example, it is possible to contribute to avoiding inconsistency of performance between sidelink transmission from the remote terminal to the relay terminal and uplink transmission from the relay terminal to the base station.
US11071113B2
A system, apparatus and method is disclosed for multiband wireless communication. Frequency bands and/or transmission formats are identified as available within a range for wireless communication. The system evaluates signal quality metrics for each frequency band and selects a communication method based on the evaluation. Multiple frequency bands and communication methods can be utilized by the system such that a combination of licensed, unlicensed, semilicensed, and overlapped frequency bands can be simultaneously used for communication. The system monitors communications and can report link performance for adaptive control of the selected communication methods.
US11071104B2
According to some embodiments, a network node is operable to separately schedule radio transmissions per sub-subframe (SSF). A method in the network node comprises mapping a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) to first resource elements in a first SSF. The first resource elements are associated with a first set of antenna ports. The method includes mapping a second DMRS to second resource elements in a second SSF. The second resource elements are associated with the first set of one or more antenna ports and precoding of the second DMRS differs from a precoding of the first DMRS. The method further includes scheduling a radio transmission during the first SSF precoded in accordance with the first DMRS, and scheduling a radio transmission during the second SSF precoded in accordance with the second DMRS. In particular embodiments, a subframe may comprise two, four, or eight sub-subframes.
US11071089B2
Various communication systems may benefit from a dynamic streaming service. For example, certain streaming services may benefit from an improvement in the switching between broadcast delivery and unicast delivery for a streaming service in a cellular system. A method includes receiving information about a streaming service. The method also includes determining by a network entity in a radio access network whether to deliver data for the streaming service via multimedia broadcast or unicast based on the information and predetermined criteria for evaluating the information. In addition, the method includes triggering a sending of the data via the multimedia broadcast or the unicast.
US11071078B2
Discovery and synchronization channels are discussed for user-tracking zones in a cellular network. User-tracking zones reduce the mobility tracking burden on the UE and shift the tracking responsibility to the network. This shift allows for UE and network power savings from reduced searching at the UE as well as through efficient paging area tracking and less broadcast signaling. The various aspects provide channel design for initial synchronization and discovery of the user-tracking zones. A single frequency network (SFN) synchronization channel is provided with at least a reference signal for time synchronization and payload information that may include a zone identifier (ID), formatting for a system information transmission request, and resource allocation for the request. The zone ID may be included in the payload or embedded into the reference signal. Facility is also provided for handling zone nodes of different power classes that allows for maintaining the SFN operations.
US11071077B2
A network sync signal with unknown frequency location is detected by sampling the received signal over a band of interest in frequency, and over the repetition period of the sync signal in time. The signal is converted to the frequency domain. Sub-bands of the frequency-domain signal, corresponding to different possible sync locations and frequency offsets, are extracted and converted to the time domain, where the sync signal is searched over the reception window length using time-domain matched filtering.
US11071071B2
A method for optimizing power supply life time of an industrial sensor platform which includes a processing unit, a power supply, and transmission means. The method identifies a sensor connected to an industrial platform, verifies a functional setting of the platform, determines sensor power consumption and sensor measurement time ts, and determines transmission power consumption of the transmission means. The method further includes acquiring input parameter settings which includes expected battery life time, sensor reading interval Ts and periodic transmission interval Tw. Which is followed by calculating an optimum for power supply life time, sensor reading interval Ts, and periodic transmission interval Tw. And adjusting settings of the platform for sensor reading interval Ts and periodic transmission interval Tw according to the optimum calculated.
US11071070B2
A base station transmits, during a first subframe, an uplink grant triggered in response to transmitting a trigger during a validation duration. The uplink grant indicates resource blocks. During the validation duration, the trigger indicating an uplink subframe for reception is transmitted via the resource blocks. A power headroom value determined for a reference subframe is received during the uplink subframe and via the resource blocks. The reference subframe: is after the first subframe; and is before the uplink subframe.
US11071068B2
The present invention is designed so that proper power headroom reports (PHRs) can be transmitted as feedback even when shortened processing time and/or shortened transmission time intervals (TTIs) are used. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits an uplink signal in a shortened transmission time interval (sTTI) in a given carrier, and a control section that controls generation and transmission of a power headroom report (PHR) based on a power headroom (PH) of one or more sTTIs.
US11071062B2
An electronic device includes a storage to store a plurality of profiles relating to respective different operation modes of the electronic device, the plurality of profiles specifying different power consumption modes. At least one processor is configured to determine a given use case of the electronic device, and select a power consumption mode of the electronic device using a given profile selected from among the plurality of profiles based on the a given operation mode.
US11071057B2
According to one aspect, a method and an energy control device are provided for estimating electricity consumption during one or more transmission intervals of a transmission site or part of a transmission site. Said site comprises a scheduler for scheduling assignments, and a set of radio transmitters having known radio efficiency ηr. Said method comprises a step of estimating scheduled transmission electricity consumption ETOT based on a quotient of a sum Psch,sum of scheduled radio transmission powers Psch and the radio efficiency ηr. An energy management control method based on information from the scheduler to control the alternative energy sources on site is provided, wherein said information is depending on radio traffic load. The energy control method for every TTI for efficient and effective control that is based on the real traffic situation.
US11071049B2
Disclosed are techniques to minimize the electricity consumption of battery powered devices during network discovery and other phases of network operation. Example techniques include efficiently listening for other mains powered and battery powered devices within communication range of the battery powered device by, for example, shortening its listening window depending on how close the time reference maintained by the battery powered device is estimated to be to the time reference used by the other mains powered and battery powered devices within communication range. Other techniques include slowing the rate of listening by the battery powered device when the battery powered device is unlikely to be able to receive discovery messages or is already connected to the network. Other techniques include using knowledge of the network to listen for discovery messages on a channel or channels on which other devices are likely to be transmitting.
US11071042B2
A computer-implemented method for reducing wireless network congestion comprising receiving an initial request for network access from a mobile device and transmitting a request to a PCRF. The method includes receiving, from the PCRF, a rejection message denying access to data, and denying the initial request for network access based on the rejection message. The method includes, in response to receiving the rejection message, storing information identifying the mobile device and the user associated with the initial request. The method includes receiving a subsequent request for network access, and scanning the memory to determine that identifying information associated with the subsequent request for network access matches the stored information associated with the initial request for network access. Based on the matching stored information associated with the initial and subsequent requests for network access, the method includes denying the subsequent request for network access.
US11071035B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for performing radio link monitoring and cell searching when moving at high speeds. A movement speed of a wireless device may be determined. When performing a cell search, the manner of the cell search may depend on the movement speed of the wireless device, potentially including cells that are associated with high movement speed being more highly prioritized when the wireless device is determined to be at a higher movement speed than when the wireless device is determined to be at a lower movement speed.
US11071025B2
Some of the present implementations provide a method for a user equipment (UE) for performing a handover procedure with minimum mobility interruption. In some of the present implementations, the method receives, at the UE, a reconfiguration message that has an indicator for performing a dual-connectivity based (DC-based) handover procedure. The method then performs the DC-based handover procedure. In some of the present implementations, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity at the UE maintains different security keys to decipher PDCP packets received from at least one of a source base station and a target base station while the UE is transitioning from the source base station to the target base station, wherein a first security key is associated with the source base station and a second security key is associated with the target base station.
US11070989B2
A network slice management method, and a management unit and a system that are based on the method are provided. The method includes: determining, by a first management unit, subnet requirement information based on network slice requirement information, where a network slice includes at least one subnet; sending, by the first management unit, a first negotiation request to a second management unit, where the first negotiation request carries the subnet requirement information, and the first negotiation request is used to query for a support status of the second management unit for the subnet requirement information; and determining, by the second management unit, that the second management unit can support the subnet requirement information, or determining, by the second management unit, that the second management unit cannot support the subnet requirement information.
US11070983B2
In accordance with some embodiments, an apparatus for privacy protection includes a housing arranged to hold a personal communication device. The apparatus further includes at least one off-device resource supported by the housing that provides an alternate to a corresponding on-device resource integrated within the personal communication device. The apparatus also includes a local communication device coupled to the at least one off-device resource and supported by the housing, where the local communication device includes a personal communication device interface modem operable to provide a communication channel between the at least one off-device resource and the personal communication device. Additionally, the apparatus includes a controller coupled to the at least one off-device resource and the local communication device, where the controller is operable to manage resource scheduling between the at least one off-device resource and the corresponding on-device resource through the communication channel provided by the local communication device.
US11070980B1
A method of authenticating a secondary communication device based on authentication of a primary mobile communication device is disclosed. Trust is established with the primary mobile communication device by a device authentication server (DAS). The DAS receives an authorization code request from a secondary application operating on the secondary communication device, and transmits an authorization code to the secondary communication device. The DAS receives the authorization code from a primary application operating on the primary mobile communication device. The DAS authorizes the secondary application based on the trust with the primary mobile communication device and the authorization code from the primary application. The DAS transmits a secondary token to the secondary application at the secondary communication device to allow initialization of a communication session from the secondary application on behalf of the primary mobile communication device.
US11070974B2
A solution for selecting an optimal user Plane entity (with Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS)) per UE during seamless roaming. In one embodiment, a method is provide that is performed by a control plane entity in a mobile core network that supports inter public land mobile network (PLMN) roaming among two or more PLMNs. The method includes obtaining a create session request from an entity in a second PLMN to which a user equipment has roamed from a first PLMN; selecting a particular user plane entity among a plurality of user plane entities based on one or more user equipment related parameters; and establishing a session with the particular user plane entity to serve user plane traffic in the mobile core network for the user equipment.
US11070973B2
A method and apparatus are provided to enable or aid network-controlled selection of an IP address (and anchor) to be used by a WTRU on an application/service basis. In one example, a method is provided for a WTRU to establish a link with a gateway, transmit a query related to a selected application via the gateway, receive an advertisement for an internet protocol (IP) address, and use the IP address to communicate via the gateway with respect to the selected application. It may be assumed that there are more than one possible IP address/anchor available for the WTRU to use, as it might be the case in a mobility environment, in which an operator can provide addresses with different mobility capabilities.
US11070970B2
An apparatus and method for improving performance of a service based on Wi-Fi direct connection by verifying URI information for controlling a P2P client in a device discovery process of a MAC layer when providing a UPnP service function based on the Wi-Fi direct connection is provided. The apparatus includes a message sending unit for sending a device discovery request, a message receiving unit for receiving a response message, including URI information of a P2P client, for the device discovery request, a message analyzing unit for acquiring the URI information included in the response message, and a service controller for performing a UPnP service function based on the Wi-Fi direct connection using the acquired URI information when connecting with the P2P client, wherein the device discovery request is a device discovery request of a Wi-Fi MAC layer.
US11070969B2
The present invention discloses a system and method of preforming integrated mobile number portability (MNP) and remote SIM provisioning (RSP). The method includes: receiving, by a recipient BSS, a subscription request comprising an MNP request indicator from a user equipment; requesting, by the recipient BSS, the subscription request to a recipient Subscription Manager-Data Preparation (SM-DP) to initiate the RSP, creating, by the recipient SM-DP, a recipient MNO profile comprising a recipient MSISDN upon confirmation receipt of the Download Order by the recipient BSS, registering, by the recipient SM-DP, an MNP event in a Subscription Manager-discovery Server (SM-DS) to initiate the MNP, retrieving, by the UE, RSP event details from the SM-DS to execute profile download, and executing, by the UE, the MNP event and the RSP by transferring an eUICC functioning from a donor MNO profile to the recipient MNO profile at porting date and time.
US11070965B2
A method of linking a first device to a second device, the first device comprising a wireless communication means having a unique address associated therewith, the first device further comprising a display arranged to display a set of indicators, one of the first device or the second device having a unique identity stored thereon, the method comprising: broadcasting, from the first device, the unique address; determining, by the first device, whether one or more indicators from the set of indicators correspond to at least a portion of the unique address based on a first mapping displaying the corresponding one or more indicators; if an input selects at least one indicator from the set of indicators, determining whether the selected at least one indicator corresponds to the portion of the unique address based on a second mapping; and transmitting the unique identity between the devices.
US11070964B2
Systems and methods for radio access interfaces in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiments, a vehicle telematics device includes a processor, a communications device, and a memory, wherein the vehicle telematics device communicates with a mobile communications device using the communications device, wherein the mobile communications device is in communication with a remote server system via a mobile network connection, and wherein the vehicle telematics device provides data to the mobile communications device, where the data is to be transmitted to the remote server system, provides command data to the mobile communications device, where the command data instructs the mobile communication device to transmit the data to the remote server system using at least one communication protocol, and causes the mobile communications device to transmit the data to the remote server system using the at least one communication protocol based on the command data.
US11070954B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for group communication which may include a first UE and a set of UEs. In one aspect, the first UE may receive from each UE of the set of UEs a PDU including a header that includes a QoS level for the UE. The first UE can also determine a supported QoS level for the first UE. In another aspect, the first UE can set a transmission QoS level for the first UE to be a lowest QoS level of the determined supported QoS level and the QoS level from each UE of the set of UEs. In a further aspect, the first UE can transmit by multicast to the set of UEs a PDU based on the set transmission QoS level.
US11070953B2
An access point transmits a trigger frame to a set of electronic devices in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The access point receives, from one or more electronic devices in a set of electronic devices, one or more requests to send data. In response, the access point transmits the trigger frame, which includes information specifying an ordered list of electronic devices in the set of electronic devices that are allowed to transmit. Subsequently, the access point sequentially receives one or more frames from the ordered list of electronic devices. After receiving a frame from the last electronic device in the ordered list of electronic devices or after an unused transmit opportunity of the last electronic device in the ordered list of electronic devices, the access point transmits a block acknowledgment to the ordered list of electronic devices.
US11070950B2
The space characterization system may obtain readings from devices with electromagnetic (EM) field radios. Based on the readings, static and moving objects may be detected. The space characterization system may allow EM-based sensing of objects and room configuration, which may be based on collaboration of devices with EM radios across different EM spectra. The EM-based sensing of objects and room configuration may be used by vehicles for navigation.
US11070948B2
A position estimation device includes: a selector configured to select N wireless terminals and reselect N wireless terminals from M wireless terminals; a distance calculator configured to calculate distances among wireless terminals in a group consisting of a parent wireless terminal and the N wireless terminals based on information on power of radio signals of packets transmitted and received; a relative position calculator configured to calculate relative positions of the M wireless terminals based on the distances among the wireless terminals in the group for the N wireless terminals selected and reselected; and an absolute position converter configured to convert a relative position of a child wireless terminal into an absolute positon of the child wireless terminal based on the relative positions of the M wireless terminals and absolute positions of at least three of the M wireless terminals where the absolute positions are known.
US11070941B2
Provided is a heterogeneous network of independently provided system components for detecting and verifying time and location of endpoints. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at a first network component and from a second network component, a set of instructions for generating tokens in association with an application service; generating, at the first network component, the tokens based on the set of instructions; transmitting, by the first network component and according to the set of instructions, one or more of the tokens to one or more proximity emitter devices; receiving, from a user device, a message including a token received by the user device from at least one of the one or more proximity emitter devices; and validating the token to confirm that the token is from among the tokens generated by the first network component, the validation allowing the user device access to the application service.
US11070940B2
A mesh network includes a source node and non-source nodes. The source node generates geofenced message information defining a geofenced message for one or more non-source nodes within a geofence. The source node transmits the geofenced message information for reception by a non-source node within a communication range of the source node. The non-source node, responsive to receiving the geofenced message information, transmits the geofenced message information for reception by other non-source nodes within a communication range of the non-source node. Based on the location of the non-source node being within the geofence, the non-source node presents the geofenced message. Based on the location of the non-source node being within the geofence, the non-source node does not presents the geofenced message.
US11070935B2
In one embodiment, a method of sharing locations of users participating in a social networking service at a geographic location and communicating app related information of users participating in the social networking service, the method executed by a computer system and comprises: receiving location information and text descriptive information from a mobile device of a first user of the social networking service, the location information representing a geographic location of the first user, the text descriptive information manually provided by the first user on an input module of the mobile device; associating the location information with the text descriptive information of the first user in a database; sending the text descriptive information and the location information of the first user to a second user for display.
US11070932B1
An audio system can be configured to generate an audio heatmap for the audio emission potential profiles for one or more speakers, in specific or arbitrary locations. The audio heatmap maybe based on speaker location and orientation, speaker acoustic properties, and optionally environmental properties. The audio heatmap often shows areas of low sound density when there are few speakers, and areas of high sound density when there are a lot of speakers. An audio system may be configured to normalize audio signals for a set of speakers that cooperatively emit sound to render an audio object in a defined audio object location. The audio signals for each speaker can be normalized to ensure accurate rendering of the audio object without volume spikes or dropout.
US11070930B2
A personalized room related transfer function (RRTF) for sound bars and speakers within a specific room is generated without the need for photographs of the listener's head or microphones in a headphone apparatus. A smart device aids the listener in creating his own RRTF by enabling the listener to select a general RRTF model based on the specific sound bar setup (e.g., sound bar; sound bar+subwoofer; sound bar+rear speakers+height; etc.) from a set of general RRTFs downloaded locally or from the cloud. A test signal is played from a specific driver of the sound bar, and the listener identifies a location at which he would like the perceived sound to originate. If the driver location signal and desired location are not the same, the app adjusts parameters and replays the test signal until the driver signal and the desired location are the same.
US11070928B2
A hearing device to be worn in or at the ear of a user. The hearing device includes a housing for accommodating an electronic component, wherein the housing includes an electromagnetic wave shielding material and is formed with an indentation. The indentation provides a space at the outer side of the housing, allowing an antenna to be inserted into the indentation. The proposed hearing device achieves improved shielding of the antenna against electromagnetic waves radiated from at least one of the electronic components.
US11070924B2
There is provided an apparatus for hearing measurement based on a cochlear model comprising: a processor; and a memory connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores program instructions executable by the processor to output an interface in which n buttons corresponding to n frequency bands into which an audible frequency band is divided at 1/k octave resolution are arranged in a cochlear model, output acoustic signals corresponding to a predetermined hearing threshold in each of the n frequency bands, receive a user's input for whether each of the n frequency bands is inaudible at the predetermined hearing threshold, and output acoustic stimulation signals corresponding to the inaudible frequency band input by the user in predetermined sizes.
US11070920B2
A dual function transducer assembly comprising: a magnet motor assembly comprising a first magnet plate and a second magnet plate arranged in parallel to one another along a first axis; a sound output assembly coupled to the magnet motor assembly, the sound output assembly comprising a piston and a voice coil, and wherein the voice coil is arranged to cause a vibration of the piston in a direction parallel to the first axis; and a shaker assembly coupled to the magnet motor assembly, the shaker assembly comprising a first shaker coil and a second shaker coil arranged to cause a vibration of the magnet assembly in a direction parallel to a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis.
US11070914B2
Appropriate control corresponding to an ambient sound situation is executed for an audio processing system which receives an input of a sound via a microphone and outputs the sound via a speaker. For this purpose, a controller for the audio processing system which receives an input of a sound via the microphone and outputs the sound from the speaker includes a characteristic control unit and an analysis unit. The characteristic control unit is capable of selectively executing a plurality of control methods as an audio signal characteristic control method. The analysis unit analyzes the sound input via the microphone, and selects a control method executed by the characteristic control unit for the audio processing system in accordance with an analysis result.
US11070907B2
In one embodiment, a method for matching sensors includes generating a first and second sensor signals respectively from first and second sensors, separating the sensor signals into magnitude and phase components, determining a phase difference from the phase components, and matching the magnitude of the first sensor signal to that of the second sensor signal by multiplying the magnitude of the first sensor signal by a magnitude correction value that is a function of a ratio of the phase components of the first and second sensor signals.
US11070901B2
The present application provides a thin-type phone receiver, comprising a housing, a vibration membrane assembly and a coil. The vibration membrane assembly comprises a frame, a diaphragm and a sealing membrane. The coil is sealedly fixed in the mounting area and sealedly sleeved on the frame, and the spreading sealing membrane seals an entirety of a first gap between the frame and the diaphragm, thereby, the vibration membrane assembly separates a mounting cavity of the housing into two cavities that are arranged side by side and separate. When the coil is energized and an electromagnetic field generated by the coil interacts with a fixed magnetic field of the permanent magnets in the phone receiver, the entire diaphragm vibrates, thus, as the coil is sleeved on the vibration membrane assembly to form the thin-type phone receiver.
US11070899B2
An electronic device including a display panel, a protection layer, and a sound broadcasting element is provided. The protection layer is disposed on the display panel. The sound broadcasting element and the display panel are both located below the protection layer, and the sound broadcasting element contacts the protection layer.
US11070893B2
The present invention concerns a method for encoding media data composed of a plurality of samples, the method comprising by a server device: encoding the media data to obtain encoded media data; encapsulating the encoded media data in a set of at least one first track; generating a second track; wherein: the second track describes samples representing the result of applying a set of at least one transformation operator to samples of at least one first track; the second track comprises references to at least one of the first tracks; and the second track comprises in the metadata part, a description of the set of transformation operators.
US11070888B1
Methods, apparatus and systems related to packaging a multimedia content for distribution are described. In one example aspect, a method includes receiving media files comprising video or audio data captured at a production stage and determining a hierarchical structure of the multimedia content based on production stage information of the multimedia content. The hierarchical structure indicates that the multimedia content comprises multiple scenes, each of which comprises multiple shots produced with corresponding devices and cast. The method also includes identifying characteristics associated with the individual scenes based on the production stage information, generating multiple copies of the multimedia content at different compression levels, and dividing each of the multiple copies of the multimedia content into segments based on the hierarchical structure. The compression levels and a length of a segment are adaptively adjusted based on the characteristics associated with the individual scenes.
US11070887B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for displaying content associated with a video element of a video are provided. For example, a video may comprise video elements (e.g., pixels of frames of the video depicting an entity such as a car, an actor, a monument, etc.) that are tagged with content tags (e.g., a textual string such as a search query used to obtain content from content providers). When a user interacts with the video element (e.g., a touch gesture, such as a pressure sensitive gesture, on a video element depicting the actor), content associated with a content tag used to tag the video element may be retrieved (e.g., an image, a social network profile, search results, and/or other content associated with the actor). In this way, the content may be provided to the user for further action or learning about the entity depicted by the video element.
US11070882B2
A global speech user interface (GSUI) comprises an input system to receive a user's spoken command, a feedback system along with a set of feedback overlays to give the user information on the progress of his spoken requests, a set of visual cues on the television screen to help the user understand what he can say, a help system, and a model for navigation among applications. The interface is extensible to make it easy to add new applications.
US11070880B2
Customized recommendations of multimedia content streams are provided herein. A method can include facilitating, by a network device of a wireless network and comprising a processor, an output of a recommendation of a first multimedia content stream at a communications device based on a monitored interaction determined to have been performed by an identified entity at the communications device. The method can also include facilitating, by the network device, a first transmission of the first multimedia content stream to the communications device in response to an acceptance of the recommendation of the first multimedia content stream received from the communications device. The first multimedia content stream can be renderable for consumption at the communications device.
US11070879B2
The present disclosure provides a method for recommending media content through intelligent automated chatting. A message is received from a user in a conversation with the user. A new topic is identified based on the message and context of the conversation. A media content is identified from a set of media contents based on the new topic. A recommendation of the media content is provided in the conversation.
US11070868B1
Methods and systems for managing data storage strategies for continuous video segment recordings on a video recording device are disclosed. The data storage strategies include the detection of various trigger events and ending events detected from the video recordings or measurements detected from sensor devices that are included in the video recording device.
US11070860B2
Systems and methods are described that relate to delivering content to users. In one aspect, a primary client device and/or servers may communicate with secondary client devices to determine the identity of one or more users requesting content at the primary client device. Once the users and other attributes are identified, the primary client device may determine user characteristics which may be analyzed in conjunction with one or more spatiotemporal factors related to the content request. This analysis may lead to definition of a scene associated with the content request and to recommendation of content.
US11070856B2
A data processing method is provided in which a transmission frame is received from a transmitting device. The transmission frame is based on a split stream for one of a plurality of channels and channel bonding signaling information. Further, the received transmission frame is processed. The channel bonding signaling information includes signature information that uniquely identifies the input stream, and the signature information is contained in a header of the transmission frame.
US11070855B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for configuring a control message in a broadcasting system for supporting a multimedia service based on an interne protocol. To this end, control information to be recorded in a payload of a control message to be configured is generated based on a table selected from among a plurality of tables for defining the information related to the generation and consumption of a hybrid content when a message type of the control message to be configured is determined to be a type for providing information related to the generation and consumption of a hybrid content. In addition, the information related to the type of the selected table is recorded in an optional field of the control message to be configured.
US11070844B2
A method and a video processor for preventing start code confusion. The method includes aligning bytes of a slice header relating to slice data when the slice header is not byte aligned or inserting differential data at the end of the slice header before the slice data when the slice header is byte aligned, performing emulation prevention byte insertion on the slice header, and combine the slice header and the slice data after performing emulation prevention byte insertion.
US11070838B2
Extra precision can be added to motion vectors, such as those obtained using advanced motion vector prediction or frame rate upconversion, to produce improved motion compensation. The increased precision from neighboring blocks are used to provide increased precision to a motion vector for a current block. In various embodiments, the derivation of the increased precision can be found through various methods. In other embodiments, refined motion vectors can be saved for use in subsequent predictions, and a rate distorion optimized selection can be performed for determining whether or not to use the refinement.
US11070837B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry performs a primary transform on a derived prediction error, performs a secondary transform on a result of the primary transform, quantizes a result of the secondary transform, and encodes a result of the quantization as data of an image. When a current block to be processed has a predetermined shape, the encoder performs the secondary transform using, among secondary transform basis candidates that are secondary bases usable in the secondary transform, only a secondary transform basis candidate having a size that is not largest size containable in the current block.
US11070829B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for reducing latency for wireless virtual and augmented reality applications are disclosed. A virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) system includes a transmitter rendering, encoding, and sending video frames to a receiver coupled to a head-mounted display (HMD). In one scenario, rather than waiting until the entire frame is encoded before sending the frame to the receiver, the transmitter sends an encoded left-eye portion to the receiver while the right-eye portion is being encoded. In another scenario, the frame is partitioned into a plurality of slices, and each slice is encoded and then sent to the receiver while the next slice is being encoded. In a further scenario, each slice is being encoded while the next slice is being rendered. In a still further scenario, each slice is prepared for presentation by the receiver while the next slice is being decoded by the receiver.
US11070824B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method that allow reduction in coding efficiency to be suppressed. A pixel value of a chroma component is predicted by linear prediction from a pixel value of a reference image of a luma component whose pixel location is changed by using a filter, and a prediction image of the chroma component is generated. A chroma component of encoded data in which an image is encoded is decoded by using the generated prediction image. The filter is selected on a basis of information regarding a pixel location of the chroma component and information regarding a color format. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to an image processing device, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, or the like.
US11070820B2
A method for processing a video includes performing a determination, by a processor, that a first video block is partitioned to include a first prediction portion that is non-rectangular and non-square; adding a first motion vector (MV) prediction candidate associated with the first prediction portion to a motion candidate list associated with the first video block, wherein the first MV prediction candidate is derived from a sub-block MV prediction candidate; and performing further processing of the first video block using the motion candidate list.
US11070811B2
Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding an intra prediction mode of a prediction unit of a chrominance component based on an intra prediction mode of a prediction unit of a luminance component are provided. When an intra prediction mode of a prediction unit of a luminance component is the same as an intra prediction mode in an intra prediction mode candidate group of a prediction unit of a chrominance component, reconstructing the intra prediction mode candidate group of the prediction unit of the chrominance component by excluding or replacing an intra prediction mode of the prediction unit of the chrominance component which is same as an intra prediction mode of the prediction unit of the luminance component from the intra prediction mode candidate group, and encoding the intra prediction mode of the prediction unit of the chrominance component by using the reconstructed intra prediction mode candidate group.
US11070789B1
A switchable fringe pattern illuminator includes an optical path switch configured to receive light and dynamically control an amount of light that is provided to a first waveguide and an amount of light that is provided to a second waveguide. A first projector configured to generate a first fringe pattern using light from the first waveguide. The first fringe pattern illuminates a first portion of a target area. A second projector configured to generate a second fringe pattern using light from the second waveguide. The second fringe pattern illuminates a second portion of a target area. The illuminator may be part of a depth camera assembly (DCA). The DCA is configured to capture images of a portion of the target area. The DCA is further configured to determine depth information for an object in the target area based in part on the captured images.
US11070774B2
A dual-modulation projection system (100) includes a light source (102), a phase modulator (104), an amplitude modulator (106), and a controller (110) having temporal lightfield simulation capabilities (114). The phase modulator (104) spatially modulates a lightfield from the light source (102) to generate an intermediate image on the amplitude modulator (106). The amplitude modulator (106) spatially modulates the intermediate image to form a final image. The controller (110) models the phase state of the phase modulator (104) during transitions between phase modulator frames and generates lightfield simulations of the intermediate image during the transition. The controller (110) utilizes the lightfield simulations to generate and provide sets of amplitude drive values to the amplitude modulator (106) at a faster rate than that at which the phase modulator (104) is capable of switching.
US11070773B2
Full-color images of low-light scenes are generated by the systems and methods described herein using only two light channels. An array of photosensitive pixels includes two sets of pixels, the first sensitive only to light associated with a first light channel, the second only to light associated with a second light channel. Thus the first set of pixels generate a first set of electrical signals in response to incident light within the first light channel, and the second set of pixels generate a second set of electrical signals in response to incident light within the second light channel. An image processor receives the first and second sets of electrical signals and generates a full-color image of the scene by processing only signals generated by the first and second sets of pixels.
US11070765B2
A method and apparatus for night lapse video capture are disclosed. The apparatus includes an image sensor, an image processor, and a video encoder. The image sensor is configured to capture image data. The image data includes a first image that is temporally precedent to a second image. The image processor is configured to determine a motion estimation. The motion estimation is based on a comparison of a portion of the first image and a portion of the second image. The image processor is configured to subtract a mask from the second image to obtain a denoised image. The mask is based on the motion estimation. The video encoder is configured to receive the denoised image from the image processor. The video encoder is configured to encode the denoised image in a video format. The video encoder is configured to output a video file in the video format.
US11070763B2
A system includes a processor and a memory storing program instructions. The instructions are executable by the processor to generate a first image file representing a thermal image and a second image file representing a visible light image. The instructions are executable to generate a first blended image based on the thermal image, the visible light image, and a display setting. Furthermore, the instructions are executable to display the first blended image on a display and to transmit, via a network interface to a server having an application for serving an image file generated by the processor, an image file upload. The image file upload includes: the first and second image files and a third image file representing the first blended image or the display setting for generating a second blended image based on the thermal and visible light images and the display setting.
US11070759B2
An image sensing device includes a pixel suitable for outputting a pixel signal through a read-out line during a read-out section and a precharge block suitable for precharging the read-out line to a voltage level corresponding to an initial voltage level of the pixel signal during a row non-selection section adjacent to the read-out section.
US11070758B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid state imaging device and an electronic device from which a holding unit for holding information in a pixel can be eliminated. When a charge distribution unit distributes a pixel signal SIG to a first ADC, a pixel signal representing only reflection light is divided for allocation. When the charge distribution unit distributes a pixel signal SIG to a second ADC, a pixel signal representing background light and reflection light (partial) is divided for allocation. When the charge distribution unit distributes a pixel signal SIG to a third ADC, a pixel signal representing background light and reflection light (the rest) is divided for allocation. During a period in which no signal is acquired, a discharge transistor functions as an overflow portion for releasing electrical charge. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a solid state imaging device used for an imaging device.
US11070754B1
In an embodiment, an image sensor includes: first and second voltage rails; first and second regulators configured to generate first and second regulated voltage at the first and second voltage rails, respectively; and a plurality of pixels coupled to the first and second voltage rails. Each pixel includes: first and second transistor coupled first and second storage capacitor, respectively. A third transistor is coupled between a control terminal of the first transistor and the first or second voltage rails. The third transistor is configured to limit a slew rate of current flowing between the control terminal of the second transistor and the first or second voltage rails to a first slew rate when the image sensor operates in global shutter mode, and to a second slew rate when the image sensor operates in rolling mode, the first slew rate being smaller than the second slew rate.
US11070745B2
A video imaging system is provided. The video imaging system is configured to maintain a video image displayed on a display unit in a predetermined orientation based upon a use. The video imaging system includes an endoscope, a camera head unit, a camera control unit configured to determine a focal distance, and a display control unit. The display control unit is configured to process the focal distance to determine a use. The use is processed by the display control unit so as to maintain the video image in the predetermined orientation. The contextual information may be focal distance, image data or endoscopic orientation.
US11070738B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a camera-enabled device are described. The camera-enabled device may emit, via a first light emitting source, an infrared light in a physical environment and determine time-of-flight information associated with a target object in the physical environment based on the emitted infrared light. The camera-enabled device may estimate one or more exposure settings based on the time-of-flight information, and emit, via a second light emitting source, a visible light in the physical environment based on the estimated one or more exposure settings. As a result, the camera-enabled device may capture an image of the physical environment based on the emitted visible light and the estimated one or more exposure settings.
US11070737B2
An exposure control device of a vehicle-mounted camera comprises an illuminance level determination unit, a plurality of timers, a timer operating unit, and an exposure level determination unit. The illuminance level determination unit determines that an illumination level of an external light illuminance corresponds to one of a plurality of illuminance levels. The timers each provided for a corresponding one of a plurality of change modes, the change modes being defined among the plurality of illuminance levels, or among a plurality of exposure levels for an exposure of a vehicular camera. The timer operating unit operates each of the timers in accordance with a state of change of the illuminance level of the external light illuminance. The exposure level determination unit determines one of the exposure levels for the exposure of the vehicular camera based on a count state of each of the timers.
US11070733B2
An imaging apparatus that can be mounted with at least one battery, for capturing an object image to generate image data, includes: an operation member configured to receive an operation of a user; a display configured to display information on a setting of the imaging apparatus; and a processor configured to control the display based on a user operation input to the operation member, wherein the imaging apparatus has a plurality of functions to be executed using power of the battery, and the processor causes the display to display attention information indicating whether the plurality of functions include an inexecutable function due to an insufficient remaining capacity of the battery, when a predetermined operation is input to the operation member in a state where the plurality of functions are not executed.
US11070729B2
A disclosed image processing apparatus calculates a background vector expressing a motion of a background based on a plurality of motion vectors detected between a plurality of images. Then the image processing apparatus detects a motion vector of a moving object from the plurality of motion vectors, based on a magnitude of Euclidean distance between each of the plurality of motion vectors and the background vector.
US11070728B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of multi-camera. The method may include determining a level of a camera in a multi-camera system based on the status of an object, and determining a mode of the camera based on the level. The mode may relate to one of a bit rate, an I frame interval, or a coding algorithm. The method may further include generating a monitor file relating to the object based on the level of the camera in the multi-camera system.
US11070725B2
Image processing method, drone, and drone-camera system are provided. The method includes acquiring, according to a current environmental parameter of the drone, a target sky image that matches the current environmental parameter; and determining a direction parameter of the camera device when capturing a to-be-stitched image. The to-be-stitched image is an image captured under the current environmental parameter. The method further includes stitching the target sky image with the to-be-stitched image according to the direction parameter to obtain a panoramic image.
US11070724B2
The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method that are capable of more facilitating editing. The image processing apparatus includes an operation detection unit that detects an operation input by an operation unit and a display control unit that outputs, to an immersive presentation device, part or entirety of a spherical image on which an image of the operation unit is superimposed, as a presentation image, to cause the immersive presentation device to display the presentation image, the display control unit being configured to control, in a case where the operation input has been detected, the display of the presentation image such that the operation input is reflected, in which the operation detection unit detects coordinates at a position pointed by a pointer of the operation unit, in the spherical image. The present technology is applicable to an editing system that edits spherical images.
US11070723B2
A hand-held digital camera has a touch-sensitive display screen (“touch screen”) for image preview and user control of the camera, and a user-selectable panorama mode. Upon entering panorama mode the camera superimposes upon the touch screen a horizontal rectangular bar whose width and/or height are user-adjustable by interaction with the touch screen to select a desired horizontal sweep angle. After the sweep angle is set the camera automatically captures successive horizontally overlapping images during a sweep of the device through the selected sweep angle. Subsequently the camera synthesises a panoramic image from the successively captured images, the panoramic image having a width corresponding to the selected sweep angle.
US11070722B2
An image capturing device includes: an illuminator configured to generate illumination light composed of components at a plurality of wavelength bands, each of the components having a characteristic in accordance with a corresponding one of settings; an imager configured to generate an image signal by capturing light from a subject; and a processor. The processor is configured to: set an acquisition condition for acquiring spectral information of the subject, the acquisition condition including a condition related to an operation of each of the illuminator and the imager; analyze the image signal generated by the imager based on the acquisition condition in order to acquire the spectral information of the subject; determine whether or not the acquired spectral information satisfies an end condition for ending acquisition of the spectral information; and change the acquisition condition when the processor determines that the end condition is not satisfied.
US11070709B2
A method for aligning an image sensor relative to a lens module, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a test image along a first optical path with the lens module and projecting the test image along a second optical path transverse to the first optical path with the lens module; manipulating an orientation of the lens module with respect to the image sensor to project the test image along the second optical path onto the image sensor; using the test image received by the image sensor along the second optical path to determine a corrected orientation of the lens module with respect to the image sensor, so as to align the lens module with respect to the image sensor; and thereafter fixing the aligned lens module to the image sensor.
US11070698B2
A printing apparatus includes an instruction unit configured to instruct a conveyance unit to convey a first sheet, and a detection unit configured to detect a size of the conveyed first sheet, the detected size being used for image processing for printing on a different sheet from the first sheet. The instruction unit is configured to instruct, before the detection unit detects the size of the first sheet, the conveyance unit to convey a sheet next to the first sheet.
US11070697B2
An information processing system includes a storage storing flow information in association with application identification information, for each application for executing a sequence of processes, the flow information defining program identification information and an execution order of the programs; a storage storing screen information in association with the application identification information for each application; a transmitter for sending, to a device, the screen information associated with the application identification information, when a first request including the application identification information is received from the device; a receiver for receiving a second request including information relating to the electronic data specified by a user in the screen displayed on the device; an acquirer for acquiring the flow information associated with the application identification information; and an executor for executing the programs identified by the program identification information.
US11070692B2
A post-processing apparatus includes a cutting device, one or both of an inclination detector and a side-edge detector, an inclination corrector and a hardware processor. The cutting device cuts a sheet along one or both of a feed direction in which the sheet is conveyed and a cross direction perpendicular to the feed direction. The inclination detector detects a front edge of the sheet in the feed direction at multiple positions in the cross direction. The side-edge detector detects a position of a side edge of the sheet in the cross direction. The inclination corrector performs an inclination correction operation of correcting an inclination of the sheet. The hardware processor causes the cutting device to cut the sheet after causing the inclination corrector to perform the inclination correction operation for an amount of the inclination based on the detection by the inclination detector or the detection by the side-edge detector.
US11070677B1
Techniques to signal escalation of a peer-to-peer two-party media call to a multiway media call are described. An apparatus may comprise a communication client operative on caller and callee client devices. The communication client may comprise a user interface component to allow users of the device to initiate and take part in one-to-one and multiway calls; a network component operative to handle network communications between messaging servers and other client devices; a peer-to-peer media call component operative to perform peer-to-peer one-on-one media calls between client devices; a multiway media call component operative to join a multiway call at a multiway media relay system; and a media call management component operative to initiate the peer-to-peer media call, to detect a multiway media call escalation event and to transition the peer-to-peer media call to a multiway call session. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11070670B1
A data subscription system provides emergency event data to receiving systems. The data subscription system includes an event emitter and a distribution module. The event emitter receives event data describing an event in a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system; the event is related to an emergency call. The event emitter identifies a subscription subscribed to the event based on a tenant identifier identifying a CAD tenant associated with the event, and adds a data message with the event data to a queue for the identified subscription. The distribution module retrieves the data message from the queue, transforms the data message based on one or more filtering or formatting rules, and transmits the transformed data message to a receiving system associated with the subscription.
US11070669B2
A method for maintaining contact information in a hearing impaired assisted user's communication device includes the steps of (a) providing a web site for altering assisted user contact information, (b) linking a proxy device to the web site, (c) receiving an identifier associated with the assisted user's device via the proxy device, (d) identifying an assisted user's device via the received identifier, (e) enabling the proxy device to be used to modify contact information for the assisted user associated with the received identifier, (f) starting a timer to time out a sync timeout period, (g) during the sync timeout period, receiving an indication via the assisted user's device confirming a desire to update the assisted user's contact information, (h) updating the assisted user's contact information, and (i) at the end of the timeout period, ceasing an indication that updated data is ready to be used from the assisted user's device.
US11070668B2
Techniques are described herein for providing call logs for cellular and internet calls that are rerouted to one or more terminating caller devices. The techniques include: organizing a call routing scheme based on call routing configuration settings, the call routing scheme directing routing of incoming calls to one or more user devices that receives service from a telecommunications network; receiving a call log request from a user device that includes a unique identifier of the user device or a user; transmitting the call log request to a database server of the telecommunications network to obtain a call log for an incoming call to the one or more user devices, the incoming call being routed according to the call routing scheme; and sending the call log to the user device to display the call log information at the user device.
US11070659B2
A first terminal sends a multimedia file to a server; the first terminal receives a multimedia identifier sent by the server, where the multimedia identifier is used to represent a location of the multimedia file in the server; the first terminal sends the multimedia identifier to a second terminal; the first terminal sends a call request to the second terminal, so that the second terminal plays the multimedia file. Call intention information is played to the second terminal through multimedia, so that a user of the second terminal obtains the call intention information in time.
US11070657B2
Operating parameters of a hands-free audio system used with a wireless communication device in a moving vehicle are adjusted or tuned in real-time and requires only two persons: one to drive the vehicle and thus provide actual usage conditions with the hands-free audio system and one to remotely tune or adjust operating parameters to optimize far end audio quality. The system is remotely tuned by transmitting audio signals from the vehicle to the far end using a first communications link to the far end and sending adjustment commands to the vehicle from the far end via a second, data link between the far end and the vehicle. In one embodiment, DTMF signals received from inside or outside the vehicle can tune or be used to diagnose the hands-free system. Test measurements obtained from within and by the hands-free audio system can also be retrieved from a remote location.
US11070650B2
A method, computer program product, and a computing system are provided for de-duplicating remote procedure calls at a client. In an implementation, the method may include generating a plurality of local pending remote procedure calls. The method may also include identifying a set of duplicate remote procedure calls among the plurality of remote procedure calls. The method may also include associating each remote procedure call within the set of duplicate remote procedure calls with one another. The method may also include executing a remote procedure call of the set of duplicate remote procedure calls. The method may further include providing a response for the remote procedure call of the set of duplicate remote procedure calls with the other remote procedure calls of the set of duplicate remote procedure calls.
US11070648B2
An example system and method facilitates operation of a networked software application that communicates with a network resource during periods of intermittent network connectivity and includes determining when a networked software application is offline and when it is online; selectively intercepting one or more request messages from the networked software application addressed to a network resource when the software application is offline, resulting in a store of intercepted request messages; detecting when the networked software application transitions from being offline to being online; and selectively issuing the one or more request messages to the network resource in a sequence in which the one or more request messages were stored in the store of intercepted request messages. In a more specific embodiment, the system is implemented via an offline toolkit for capturing REpresentational State Transfer (REST) calls when the networked software application (client) is offline; then selectively replaying the calls when the client reconnects, i.e., goes online.
US11070636B1
A method includes determining a location of a device based on wireless communication of the device with one or more line-of-sight dependent communication devices that allow data transmission between the device and a base station, determining content to be provided to the device based in part on the location of the device, performing computing operations that correspond to the content at the base station using inputs transmitted to the base station from the device, and transmitting outputs of the computing operations from the base station to the device for display at the device.
US11070633B2
A network node of a wireless local area network (WLAN) filters, based on at least one policy, information about services available via the network node. The network node sends, to a wireless device as part of a pre-association discovery operation of the wireless device, the filtered information about the services.
US11070625B2
Dynamic management of concurrent client connections to a server is achieved by a server, in that the server monitors its load state and when the server's maximum permitted number of concurrent requests has been exceeded it reduces the clients' maximum numbers of permitted concurrent requests until such time as the overloading situation no longer persists. In this way, the capacity of each of multiple connections can be controlled by the server individually or as a group, wherein the control is dynamic, so that the client-server connections do not have to be accurately configured in advance.
US11070620B1
Efficient data transfer is disclosed. A server provides an endpoint for a client. The client can communicate with a cloud storage system through the server rather than connect directly to the cloud storage system. The server is configured to perform requests in a manner that reduces the amount of data transferred to and from the cloud storage system.
US11070614B2
A load balancing method is provided: A load balancer obtains an invalidation notification, where the invalidation notification includes an identifier of an invalid object on a target side, and the invalid object includes an invalid interaction node, an invalid session group on an interaction node, or an invalid session in a session group; the load balancer broadcasts the invalidation notification, where the invalidation notification is used to instruct an interaction node on a source side to delete recorded information about a load balancing protocol of the invalid object; and the load balancer reassigns an interaction node to an application interaction request when the load balancer receives the application interaction request sent by the interaction node on the source side and destination data in the application interaction request is empty. In this way, reliability of message exchanging is ensured when an interaction node is abnormal.
US11070612B2
A continuity system provides or maintains data and application continuity. According to an embodiment, the system comprises a communication interface for a client system, a network layer for receiving data from the client system, a hardware infrastructure for creating instances of the client system for replicating data, and an applications module for executing one or more applications on the replicated data. According to a further aspect, the system includes a portal interface configured for providing a remote user with control, audit and other functions associated with the user's system configuration.
US11070611B1
A download module accesses a download queue including at least two file download requests from an application running on a client device of a server. The application and each of the file download requests is associated with a context that comprises a set of context components that each indicates a part of the application. The file download request context components indicate parts of the application that use the requested file and the application context components indicate parts of the application that are active. The download module ranks each of the file download requests based on a comparison of the respective file download request context components of each file download request to the application context components of the application. The download module then selects two or more file download requests in the download queue for concurrent execution based on the respective rankings of the file download requests in the download queue.
US11070609B1
A method and system that performs file download at a client computing device after a determination that the file does not already exist on the client computing device is provided. The file download is initiated but suspended until a determination has been made that the file does not exist on the client computing device. If the file already exists (i.e., the file is a duplicate file), the user is prompted to either cancel the file download or continue the file download. However, if the file does not exist, the file download is resumed.
US11070604B2
A software-defined media platform having one or more media processing units that may be dynamically instantiated, interconnected and configured according to changes in demand, resource availability, and other parameters affecting system performance relative to demand. In one example media processing method, a source media stream may be received via multicast or unicast. The source media stream may be processed into one or more levels of work product segments having different media characteristics by a plurality of transcoding processing units, as needed. One or more levels of work product segments, or the source media stream, may be packaged (e.g., including resegmenting) into final work product segments having select media characteristics, which may be uploaded to a cloud storage unit for delivery to end users.
US11070602B1
A split streaming system and method are provided in which a stream of data (that can be video, audio or textual data) is split and sent over a plurality of stream reflectors to a stream recipient. Each stream reflector performs time gradient replacement to manage the split streaming.
US11070593B2
In particular embodiments, a Cross-Border Visualization Generation System is configured to: (1) identify one or more data assets associated with a particular entity; (2) analyze the one or more data assets to identify one or more data elements stored in the identified one or more data assets; (3) define a plurality of physical locations and identify, for each of the identified one or more data assets, a respective particular physical location of the plurality of physical locations; (4) analyze the identified one or more data elements to determine one or more data transfers between the one or more data systems in different particular physical locations; (5) determine one or more regulations that relate to the one or more data transfers; and (6) generate a visual representation of the one or more data transfers based at least in part on the one or more regulations.
US11070591B2
A system validates the establishment and/or continuation of a connection between two applications over a network using a two-stage process: (1) a local security agent executing on the same source system as the source application validates the connection against a set of policies stored locally on the source system; and (2) a local security agent executing on the same destination system as the destination application validates the connection against a set of policies stored locally on the destination system. The connection is allowed or blocked depending on the outcome of the two-stage validation. Before the validation process, a policy enforcement engine distributes copies of a trusted public certificate to the source and destination local security agents, which extend their local copies of the certificate to enable them to enforce policies without the use of a backend system.
US11070586B2
The systems and methods described herein can provide a protocol escalation path in response to a client system's request or in response to a triggering event. For example, the computing system can provide an indication to a client system that the client system can upgrade from a regular connection channel to an upgraded connection channel if the client system can solve a certain proof-of-work. The computing system may also receive a request from the client system to access an upgraded connection channel. The upgraded connection channel may provide more bandwidth, stability, higher priority, etc., alone or in combination, comparing to the regular connection channel.
US11070584B1
A procedure for neutralizing an attack on a control system of an industrial asset includes detecting an anomaly in a first sensor node associated with a first unit operating in a first operational mode, and receiving time series data associated with the first sensor node. A subset of the time series data is provided to each of a plurality of virtual sensor models A first virtual sensor model is selected from among a plurality of virtual sensor models based upon the subset of the time series data received by each of the plurality of virtual sensor models. A first confidence level of the first virtual sensor is determined. Responsive to determining that the first confidence level is below a first confidence level threshold, the first unit is transferred to a second operational mode using sensor readings associated with a second sensor node of a second unit of the industrial asset.
US11070582B1
A cybersecurity assessment system is provided for monitoring, assessing, and addressing the cybersecurity status of a target network. The cybersecurity assessment system may scan the target network and produce data regarding the current state and properties of devices on the target network, events occurring on the target network, vulnerabilities detected in devices on the target network, and the like. The cybersecurity assessment system can analyze the scan data and determine a degree to which the current status of the target network satisfies a particular cybersecurity readiness standard, and how the status changes over time. The cybersecurity assessment system can also transform large amounts of vulnerability scan data into efficient representations for use in providing interactive presentations of the vulnerabilities detected on the target network. The cybersecurity assessment system can also provide information regarding cybersecurity events in substantially real time.
US11070577B2
An allowed communication list conversion unit (123) assigns one or more flags to request communication and response communication, between which a correspondence relationship is described in a detection rule, and describes, in an allowed communication list, details of a flag operation specifying a value to be set to the flag and a flag condition for determining whether the value to be set is set in the flag, in association with each other. A determination unit (103) sets the value after determining that communication data on the request communication is normal, determines whether the value is set in the flag based on the flag condition when determining whether communication data on the response communication to the request communication is normal, and determines that the communication data on the response communication is normal when the value is set, to thereby reset the flag.
US11070574B2
A system and method are described for preventing security breaches in an IoT system. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises: an Internet of Things (IoT) device comprising a wireless communication module to establish communication with a plurality of IoT hubs over local wireless communication channels; advertising control logic to transmit first advertising beacons to the plurality of IoT hubs of a user indicating that the IoT device is connectable; the advertising control logic to begin transmitting a second advertising beacon to IoT hubs indicating that the IoT device is not connectable if the IoT device establishes a connection with a first IoT hub, the IoT hubs other than the first IoT hub to report the not connectable status of the IoT device to an IoT service; and a connection security module of the IoT service to determine whether the IoT device is connected to any known IoT hub upon receiving the not connectable status from one or more of the IoT hubs; wherein if the connection security module cannot identify a known IoT hub to which the IoT device is connected, then an alert condition is generated.
US11070571B2
Some embodiments of cloud-based gateway security scanning have been presented. In one embodiment, some data packets are received sequentially at a gateway device. The data packets constitute at least a part of a file being addressed to a client machine coupled to the gateway device. The gateway device forwards an identification of the file to a remote datacenter in parallel with forwarding the data packets to the client machine. The datacenter performs signature matching on the identification and returns a result of the signature matching to the gateway device. The gateway device determining whether to block the file from the client machine based on the result of the signature matching from the datacenter.
US11070562B2
Techniques for implementing fine-grained access control in an IoT (Internet of Things) deployment are provided. In one set of embodiments, a gateway of the IoT deployment can create/maintain a device proxy pertaining to an IoT device and a persona in the IoT deployment, where the device proxy includes one or more access methods for accessing the IoT device, and where the one or more access methods reflect access rights that are deemed appropriate for the persona with respect to the IoT device. An application instance of the IoT deployment can receive a request from the persona to access the IoT device. Networking equipment interconnecting the application instance with the gateway can then automatically route, via one or more SDN micro-segmentation rules, the request to the device proxy for processing via the proxy's access methods.
US11070557B2
Techniques are described for delayed serving of protected content. A request has been made by a client computing device for a requested resource comprising a first portion and a second portion that is initially withheld from the client computing device. First content comprising the first portion of the requested resource and reconnaissance code is served for execution on the client computing device. When executed at the client computing device, the reconnaissance code gathers data at the client computing device that indicates whether the client computing device is human-controlled or bot-controlled. The data gathered by the reconnaissance code is received. Based on the data, it is determined that the client computing device is not bot-controlled. In response to determining that the client computing device is not bot-controlled, the second portion of the requested resource is served to the client computing device.
US11070548B2
A method includes receiving, by a token provider server, a first request for a first token that is associated with first information from a first application. The first request for the first token is part of an application session between a plurality of applications that includes the first application. The token provider server provides the first token to the first application. The token provider server receives the first token from a second application of the plurality of applications. The token provider server provides first information associated with the first token to the second application. The first information enables an action to be performed by the second application based on the first information.
US11070539B2
A network security system and method implements dynamic access control for a protected resource using run-time contextual information. In some embodiments, the network security system and method implements a dynamic access ticket scheme for access control where the access ticket is based on run-time application context. In other embodiments, the network security system and method implements policy enforcement actions in response to detected violations using application programming interface (API) to effectively block detected policy violations without negatively impacting the operation of the application or the user of the application. In some embodiments, the network security system uses enterprise social collaboration tools to interact with the end-user or with the system administrator in the event of detected security incidents.
US11070538B1
A method of controlling an environment using a roaming electronic assistant. The method comprises receiving user environment setting preferences, user entertainment service authorizations, and user entertainment authorization credentials from devices in a home environment by an application executing on a computer system, establishing communication by the application with a destination location, receiving information about application programming interfaces (APIs) of devices located in the destination location by the application, establishing communication with the devices located in the destination location by the application based on the API information, whereby a presentation layer of the application is enabled to control the environment of the user at the destination location based on the user environment setting preferences, the user entertainment service authorizations, and the user entertainment authorization credentials.
US11070535B2
A system and method are provided for the secure sharing of information across and open network and for performing management of keys used for encrypting and decrypting data.
US11070532B1
The present disclosure is directed to methods that provide a secure communication protocol by utilizing one step process of authenticating and encrypting data without having to exchange symmetric keys or needing to renew or re-issue digital identities fundamental to asymmetric encryption methodology.
US11070528B2
An assistant computing device communicates with a requesting computing device. The requesting computing device communicates with a remote computing device. The remote computing device in communication with a dataset resides in a secured data center. The requesting computing device: employs credentials to communicate requests to the remote computing device over an external network and through a firewall; and receives query results generated by the remote computing device executing the requests. The assistant computing device: receives requests from the requesting computing device to query the dataset; generates access credentials; encrypts and communicates the access credentials to the requesting computing device; receives encrypted results from the requesting computing device; decrypts and communicates the results to the requesting computing device.
US11070516B2
Technology for analyzing and tracking states of a directory service by correlating changes from multiple different data sources related to the directory service. A first data source may be based on synchronization data of the directory service and a second data source may be based on security data of one or more domain controllers hosting the directory service. The synchronization data and security data may both correspond to changes to the directory service but may include different information. For example, synchronization data may provide the content of a modification to the directory service and the security data may provide an entity that initiated the modification. The multiple sources may be compared to identify inconsistencies (e.g., detect malicious activity).
US11070514B2
Methods, devices, and storage mediums select an edge network site over other candidate edge network sites, to resolve hostnames, from end devices, to Internet protocol addresses based on various network path information, over other factors, such as a proximity of the end device to the selected edge network site relative to the proximity to the other candidate edge network sites.
US11070511B2
Provided herein are systems and methods that enable management of batch email sending via at least one message transfer authority. Management includes receiving a message recipient list and a message to be sent thereto, evaluating a message delivery readiness indicator for a recipient, and based on a result of the evaluating, removing recipients, locking the message recipient list from further changes, generating a message based on the received message, calculating a probability of engagement metric including an originating node and IP address, and at least one message transfer agent for transferring the message to the at least one recipient. Management further includes coordinating the networked sever to send the generated message from the IP address via the at least one determined message transfer agent and repeating the steps of calculating, determining and coordinating until all messages have been forwarded to a message transfer agent.
US11070507B2
A method, computer system, and computer program product for cognitively adjusting a notification alert delivery time are provided. The embodiment may include receiving a message notification from a sender. The embodiment may also include determining an importance of the received message notification based on a plurality of notification attributes and a plurality of person attributes that are each associated with the received message notification. The embodiment may further include, in response to determining to alert a user of the received message notification based on the determined importance, identifying a current user sleep stage. The embodiment may also include, in response to determining the current user sleep stage will minimally impact the user, transmitting the received message notification to a user device.
US11070502B1
Techniques for notifications of entity references in messaging groups. A client device may receive a notification in a messaging application. The notification may indicate that an entity reference to a user associated with the client device appears in a group messaging thread. The group messaging thread may include, as participants, one or more other users associated with one or more other client devices. The client device may display, in a user interface of the messaging application, a notification of the appearance of the entity reference in the group message thread.
US11070500B2
The present technology can provide a mechanism for viewing activities occurring in third-party services with respect to shared content items managed by the content management system. The activities occurring in the third-party services are visible in an activity feed associated with the content management system based on user permissions at the third-party services.
US11070492B2
An example method of managing virtualized computing resources provided by a public cloud includes: grouping subscriptions in the public cloud into reservations, each of the reservations including constraints on virtualized computing resources provided by at least one of the subscriptions; allocating the reservations among a plurality of principals; receiving a request to provision a workload from a user associated with a first principal of the plurality of principals, wherein the workload includes metadata describing constraints of the workload; generating a deployment plan for the workload based on the metadata therein and at least one of the reservations allocated to the first principal, the deployment plan specifying a first subscription of the subscriptions; and transmitting a deployment.
US11070485B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method includes accessing information related to a playback session in which at least a portion of requested multimedia content is streamed over a network to a client electronic device. The method further includes accessing network topology information for the network to identify which route through the network was used to provide the requested multimedia content during the playback session, including indicating which end node was used to provide the multimedia content. Still further, the method includes accessing network steering factors that indicate why the requested multimedia content was steered through the identified network route, determining, based on the network steering factors, which end node would have been more suited to providing the requested multimedia content for the playback session, and then transferring the requested multimedia content to the determined end node for provisioning during subsequent playback sessions. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11070476B2
A computing device includes an appliance status table to store at least one of reliability and performance data for one or more network functions virtualization (NFV) appliances and one or more legacy network appliances. The computing device includes a load controller to configure an Internet Protocol (IP) filter rule to select a packet for which processing of the packet is to be migrated from a selected one of the one or more legacy network appliances to a selected one of the one or more NFV appliances, and to update the appliance status table with received at least one of reliability and performance data for the one or more legacy network appliances and the one or more NFV appliances. The computing device includes a packet distributor to receive the packet, to select one of the one or more NFV appliances based at least in part on the appliance status table, and to send the packet to the selected NFV appliance. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11070468B1
A data forwarding device belonging to both (1) a segment routing (SR) domain and (2) a label distribution protocol (LDP) domain may be used to perform a method comprising: (a) receiving, by the data forwarding device, information uniquely associated with each of one or more nodes in the LDP domain; (b) associating, for each of the one or more nodes in the LDP domain, a unique SR segment identifier (SID) with the information uniquely associated with the node in the LDP domain, to generate one or more SR SID-to-LDP node associations; and (c) transmitting the one or more SR SID-to-LDP node associations for propagation to at least one other node in the SR domain, whereby the at least one other node in the SR domain will become aware of the one or more nodes in the LDP domain. The SR-LDP border router is aware of all the nodes in SR and LDP domain including the SRGB database (base label, node label, and label range). Once the border node is configured for LDP-SR stitching it assigns one of the free SR node SID to each LDP node. Subsequently, border node will propagate this binding to all the SR nodes (e.g., using the existing IGP TLVs). One of the available bits in label binding TLV may be set to make the nodes in the SR domain aware of the LDP nodes.
US11070467B1
Network hardware devices organized in a wireless mesh network (WMN). A first mesh network device includes processing logic that detects an error condition of a first wireless link to a next hop node in a wireless path between a second mesh network device and a third mesh network device. The processing logic sends, via a first radio of the first mesh network device, a first frame with a first path error message over a second wireless link to a precursor hop node in the wireless path. The first path error message identifies the error condition of the first wireless link. The processing logic generates a second frame with a copy of the first path error message and sends, via a secondary radio of the first mesh network device, the second frame with the copy of the first path error message.
US11070450B2
A network tap includes a first network connector, a second network connector, a third network connector for connecting to a monitoring device, a phase locked loop, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to extract a clock signal from a first signal on an output of one of the first and second network connectors, provide the clock signal to the phase locked loop, receive a reference clock signal derived from the recovered clock signal from the phase locked loop and clock a second signal on the input of the other one of the first and second network connectors using the received reference clock signal if a link has been established between a first network device and the first network connector and a link has been established between a second network device and the second network connector.
US11070449B2
A system for intelligently deploying applications to nodes on a distributed ledger technology (DLT) network may receive requests from authorized users to deploy DLT-based applications to one or more nodes in a DLT network. The system may further identify the DLT network for deploying the application by analyzing a set of characteristics associated with the application with a set of characteristics associated with a DLT network. The system may also generate deployment scripts for the applications that include instructions compatible with the identified DLT network and to be performed by the one or more nodes to implement the application code.
US11070444B2
The present disclosure generally discloses a performance testing capability configured for performance testing in communication networks. The performance testing capability may be configured to support in-production performance testing in communication networks. The performance testing capability may be configured to support in-production performance testing in Software Defined Networking (SDN) based communication networks.
US11070435B2
A computational instance of a remote network management platform includes a database that contains a plurality of CI records corresponding to a set of computing devices, a set of software applications, and a network-based service. The database also contains a definition of a service model that represents the set of computing devices, the set of software applications, and relationships therebetween that facilitate providing the network-based service. The computational instance also includes one or more server devices configured: to receive an indication of a change to a CI record of the plurality of CI record; add, to a change record table, a change record corresponding to the change to the CI record; select, for the service layer based on a change type specified in the change record, a service model re-computation mode; and re-compute a service layer in accordance with the service model re-computation mode.
US11070427B2
An electronic device for updating firmware in a target device over the air includes a dispatching module and a firmware over the air (FOTA) core. The dispatching module is configured to establish a communication link between the electronic device and the target device. The FOTA core is configured to receive information corresponding to updated firmware via the established communication link.
US11070423B1
In one example, a network device detects when a deployment request for the network device from a network controller is stored in a directory corresponding to the network device. Deployment information is stored as a value of a first key in the directory and includes information to configure the network device to attain a set of goals. The network device retrieves the deployment information from the directory. The network device is configured to attain the set of goals by the network device applying the retrieved deployment information. The network device generates one or more status notifications indicating a status of configuring the network device, and stores the one or more status notifications as a value of a second key in the directory to indicate the status to the network controller.
US11070422B2
An enterprise controller of an enterprise network sends to a service gateway of a service provider network a request for network slice information about network slices provisioned on a data plane of the service provider network. Responsive to the sending, the enterprise controller receives from the service gateway the network slice information including identifiers of and properties associated with the network slices. Responsive to receiving a request for the network slice information from a network device at a border of a forwarding plane of the enterprise network, the enterprise controller sends the network slice information to the network device to cause the network device to perform configuring network traffic in the forwarding plane with identifiers of ones of the network slices that match the network traffic, and to perform forwarding the network traffic configured with the identifiers to the data plane of the service provider network.
US11070418B1
A network device includes a storage and a message bus. The storage stores subscription information. The message bus distributes state information associated with a first agent to at least two agents based on the subscription information. The message bus is distinct from the first agent. The state information is stored in a data structure exclusively managed by the first agent. The message bus, after distributing the state information, makes a determination that a connection to one of the at least two agents has been closed; and performs, based on the determination, an action set to prevent attempts to distribute future state information to the one of the at least two agents.
US11070416B2
An electronic device discussed herein may include an imbalance compensation logic that determines an imbalance parameter based at least in part on received quadrature signals from quadrature generation circuitry. The imbalance parameter may be determined using noise received by a receiver as an input radio frequency signal. By using the systems and methods described herein, an accuracy of detecting the imbalance may improve. Furthermore, by including the imbalance compensation logic internal to the electronic device, the imbalance compensation logic may provide continued imbalance detection over a lifespan of the electronic device.
US11070415B2
An FBMC equalization and demodulation unit and corresponding method to process an FBMC signal includes FBMC symbols, each FBMC symbol comprising data mapped over M subcarriers, oversampled by a factor K, filtered by a prototype filter and transposed in the time-domain, comprising: a frequency domain transposition unit, configured to transpose a block of P*KM samples comprising at least one FBMC symbol into frequency domain samples, where P is an integer greater than one, an equalizer unit configured to multiply the frequency domain samples by one or more coefficients computed from a propagation channel estimate, at least one circular convolution unit, configured to perform P circular convolutions between subsets of the equalized samples and a frequency domain response of a frequency shifted version of the prototype filter, and adders, to sum corresponding outputs of each of the P circular convolutions.
US11070414B2
A wireless communication node (300) and method therein for generating multicarrier signals by means of backscattering in a wireless communication system (100) are disclosed. The wireless communication node (300) comprises a plurality A of antennas (310) configured to receive a radio frequency. The wireless communication node (300) further comprises a plurality A of switches (320), each switch has a number M of states. The wireless communication node (300) further comprises a number of impedance matrices (330), each impedance matrix comprising a number M of impedances (Z1, Z2 . . . ), each antenna is coupled to one of the impedance matrices (330) by one of the plurality A switches (320). The wireless communication node (300) further comprises a symbol mapper, a serial to parallel converter and one or more modulators (340) configured to generate a number A of baseband subcarrier signals based on data symbols (342) to be transmitted. The wireless communication node (300) further comprises one or more switch controller (350) configured to control the states of the plurality A of switches (320) based on the generated baseband subcarrier signals such that each antenna impedance is selected among the number M of impedances (330), and thereby the received RF signal at each antenna is modulated by its specific frequency baseband subcarrier signal. A group of RF subcarrier signals is generated by reflecting the modulated RF signal from each antenna, and thereby the multicarrier signals are generated from the plurality A of antennas (310).
US11070413B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a resource mapping method. The method includes: obtaining a modulation symbol generated based on M code words, where M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; mapping the modulation symbol generated based on the M code words to a time-frequency resource in one or more mapping patterns, where the mapping pattern is a pattern of mapping every Q modulation symbols to one mapping unit, the mapping unit includes F resource units, F is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, Q is a positive integer meeting 1≤Q≤F, the mapping pattern includes a sparse mapping pattern, and the sparse mapping pattern is a mapping pattern meeting F≥2 and 1≤Q
US11070410B1
To support a wide range of code rates in probabilistic shaping based modulation schemes solutions, a constellation which is at least based on a trained model is used in the modulation. Depending on an implementation the trained model may be a constellation comprising a plurality of sub-constellations with trained parameters as constellation points, or the trained model may be for generating a constellation and corresponding constellation points.
US11070406B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes communicating utilising signaling, wherein communicating utilising signaling is based on performing pulse-shaping pertaining to the signaling. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11070396B2
A Virtual Cloud Exchange (VCX) and method for establishing connectivity between a host computer in a customer network and a cloud service provider, includes a customer facing software defined network (SDN) switch; a cloud computing service facing SDN switch; and a processor executing instructions to generate a customer facing network routing virtual network function (VNF) and a cloud facing network routing VNF; and configure a first open virtual switch (vSwitch) and a second open vSwitch. The customer facing SDN switch generates a first overlay tunnel between the customer facing SDN switch and the first open vSwitch and the cloud facing SDN switch generates a second overlay tunnel between the cloud facing SDN switch and the second open vSwitch.
US11070385B1
Methods and apparatus for taking a break after seamless transition between network conferences. In an embodiment, a method for taking a break after a transition between network conferences includes operations of attending a first network conference using a first conference state and a conferencing application, and displaying Up-Next conference status about a second network conference. The method also includes operations of receiving a request to enter a break mode after joining the second network conference, joining the second network conference using the first conference state and the conferencing application, and transmitting a break mode icon to participants in the second network conference.
US11070378B1
The methods and system allow for the generation of a signcrypted biometric electronic signature token using a subsequent biometric sample after an enrollment of a biometric reference value in a biometric system. The signcrypted biometric electronic signature token involves simultaneous encryption and digital signature to protect the confidentiality. The system as described herein provides data integrity, origin authentication, and efficiency by performing encryption and digital signature simultaneously. The process allows a signcrypting party to enroll in a biometric service, sign a piece of data or content using a public key, that may be tied to a trusted anchor certificate authority, and submit a biometric sample. Subsequently, the relying party may validate the information on that piece of data or content to confirm the identity of the signcrypting party.
US11070355B2
A secure element (SE) determines a profile type and a privilege level. The privilege level, in some embodiments, is associated with a key used successfully by the SE to verify a cryptographic signature. In some embodiments, the privilege level is indicated by a privilege value read from an extension field of a root certificate. The SE determines, in some instances, whether to accept or reject a profile installation after comparing the profile type with the determined privilege level. Thus, a test server is allowed to provision a test profile to an SE even if the test server does not have commercial certification required of an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) server that provisions operational profiles. Because the test profile does not include credentials useful for network access, the lower-security test server does not create a risk of improper access to the network of a mobile network operator (MNO).
US11070350B1
An electronic device includes processing circuitry outputting first to third signals, delaying first to third signals to output fourth to sixth signals, generating a pulse signal based on the fourth signal, the fifth signal, and the sixth signal, detecting lengths of intervals, and adjusting at least one of a first code, a second code, and a third code based on fourth codes.
US11070348B1
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for synchronizing nodes of a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes identifying synchronization paths between synchronization reference nodes of the wireless network and each non-reference node of the wireless network, wherein each synchronization path includes one or more wireless hops between the synchronization reference nodes and the non-reference node, determining a number of timing slots needed for supporting each of the identified synchronization paths, and selecting at least one of the synchronization paths between each non-reference node and at least one of the synchronization reference nodes based on a number of wireless hops of each of the identified synchronization paths and the determined number of timing slots needed to support each of the identified synchronization paths.
US11070337B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for Reference Signal (RS) transmission. In example embodiments, a method implemented in a network device is provided. According to the method, the network device determines at least one set of CSI-RS resources for transmitting Tracking Reference Signal (TRS) to a terminal device. The network device further determines a first offset between a first slot to transmit a first signal for enabling transmission of the TRS and a second slot to transmit the TRS in the at least one set of CSI-RS resources. The first offset is different from a second offset between a third slot to transmit a second signal for enabling transmission of CSI-RS and a fourth slot to transmit the CSI-RS. The network device transmits a configuration indicating the at least one set of CSI-RS resources and the first offset to the terminal device.
US11070335B2
An apparatus for wireless communication selects a recommendation for the need. The apparatus selects the resource to transmit a phase tracking reference signal based on a condition of a communication system. The apparatus performs at least one of transmitting an indication of the selected recommendation for the resource to a second wireless communication device or transmitting at least one of information or a reference signal to the second device to assist the second device in determining the resource. In an aspect, the selection may be made based on receiving a request for a recommendation from the second wireless communication device or the transmitting the at least one of the information or the reference signal are based on a request received.
US11070333B2
A UE in a wireless communication system is provided. The UE comprises a transceiver configured to receive, from a BS, a SS/PBCH block including the PBCH using a first frequency location (GSCN-Current) over downlink channels, GSCN-Current being based on a set of predefined synchronization rasters that is determined by a global synchronization channel number (GSCN). The UE further comprises a processor operably connected to the transceiver, the processor configured to determine the SS/PBCH block, identify content of a PBCH included in the determined SS/PBCH block, determine a configuration for at least one of the SS/PBCH block that is associated with a PDCCH including scheduling information for RMSI on the GSCN-Current or the SS/PBCH block that is not associated with the PDCCH including the scheduling information for the RMSI on the GSCN-Current.
US11070331B2
A communications device for communicating data, the communications device including a receiver for receiving signals representing downlink data from a network element of a wireless telecommunications system via a wireless access interface having a logical baseband frame structure, a transmitter for transmitting signals representing uplink data to the network element via the wireless access interface, the logical baseband frame structure being formed from one or more minimum frequency units and one or more time units to form communications resources for allocation by the network element to the communications device, and a controller for controlling the transmitter and the receiver to transmit and to receive signals representing the data to and from the network element using the wireless access interface. The controller is configured in combination with the transmitter and the receiver to receive an indication of frequency resources within a host frequency band.
US11070327B2
The present invention discloses a method of re-transmission of a lost MMT packet by a packet transmission apparatus. The method includes generating a media processing unit (MPU) based on a media fragment unit (MFU) and generating an MMT asset by encapsulating the MPU; generating an MMT packet based on the MPU included in the generated MMT asset; and transmitting the generated MMT packet, wherein the method further comprises adding, in a signaling message related to re-transmission of the MMT packet, delay_constrained_ARQ_flag to indicate whether or not the MMT packet transmission apparatus supports a delay-constrained automatic repeat request (ARQ) function.
US11070324B2
A method of receipt status reporting in a communication device (110), comprising configuring (S1) said communication device for periodic receipt status reporting by associating a first status report type with a value of a first reporting periodicity parameter and associating a second status report type with a value of second reporting periodicity parameter, said first status report type being different from said second status report type and said first reporting periodicity parameter being different from said second reporting periodicity parameter, and periodically (S2) sending receipt status reports of said first type according to said associated value of said first reporting periodicity parameter and receipt status reports of said second type according to said associated value of said second reporting periodicity parameter.
US11070323B2
Systems and methods presented herein provide for increasing a contention window of a UE employing a LTE communications operating in a radio frequency (RF) band comprising a conflicting wireless technology. In one embodiment, an eNodeB receives a transport block of data from a user equipment (UE). The transport block includes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC). The eNodeB then determines a checksum of the transport block based on the CRC, fails the checksum, and transmits a non-acknowledgement (NACK) of the transport block to the UE based on the failed checksum. The UE, in response to the NACK, increases a contention window and re-transmits the transport block to the eNodeB.
US11070319B2
Domestic data are transmitted in the form of data messages from a data source to a memory in an unsynchronized manner in time slots via a freely accessible and accordingly heavily used transmission channel. On account of the interfering influences on the long data messages which occur in this case, the transmission of the data messages must be repeated several times until a data message is received without interference once. A comparator is used to determine a packet error rate from the ratio of the number of data messages received without interference over a certain period to the number of data messages actually transmitted during the period. A predefined packet error rate can be adaptively complied with despite varying transmission circumstances by varying the repeated transmissions per unit time.
US11070317B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for interleaving coded bits. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may generate a plurality of polar encoded bits using polar encoding. The WTRU may divide the plurality of polar encoded bits into sub-blocks of equal size in a sequential manner. The WTRU may apply sub-block wise interleaving to the sub-blocks using an interleaver pattern. The sub-blocks associated with a subset of the sub-blocks may be interleaved, and sub-blocks associated with another subset of the sub-blocks may not be interleaved. The sub-block wise interleaving may include applying interleaving across the sub-blocks without interleaving bits associated with each of the sub-blocks. The WTRU may concatenate bits from each of the interleaved sub-blocks to generate interleaved bits, and store the interleaved bits associated with the interleaved sub-blocks in a circular buffer. The WTRU may select a plurality of bits for transmission from the interleaved bits.
US11070315B2
This document discloses a solution for error detection. According to an aspect, a method comprises: generating, by a first apparatus, a transport block and error detection bits for the transport block; generating, by the first apparatus, a first number of code block groups by using the transport block and the error detection bits, wherein the first number is two or higher and based on a number of code blocks a second apparatus is able to decode in parallel processing; generating, by the first apparatus, error detection bits for at least one of the code block groups; generating, by the first apparatus, a plurality of code blocks for each code block group, and causing transmission of the plurality of code blocks to the second apparatus.
US11070312B1
A transmitter generates determiners from data vectors representing payload information, each determiner representing parity information dependent on the payload information. The transmitter encodes the determiners to generate a nub vector representing compressed parity information dependent on the parity information, wherein the encoding is mathematically equivalent to calculating three or more forward error correction (FEC) codewords from the determiners and then calculating the nub vector from the codewords, at least one of the codewords being calculated from at least one recursion of a mathematical operation, and at least one of the codewords comprising more than 6 terms. The transmitter transmits signals representing the data vectors and the nub vector to a receiver, where recovery of the data vectors at the receiver involves sequential decoding of the FEC codewords, wherein at least one codeword decoded earlier in the decoding enhances an estimate of at least one codeword decoded later in the decoding.
US11070309B2
Disclosed herein are techniques to provide an indication of bandwidth to establish a TxOP using channel bonding. An information element may be generated to include an RTS frame or a CTS frame and an indication of bandwidth in a parity portion of the information element. The indication of bandwidth may be included by using 16 bits of the parity bits of parity bytes for a PHY header of the information element.
US11070307B2
The system and method of global positioning system (GPS) anti-jam (AJ) AJ antennas utilizing a circular array of patch antennas. In some cases the circular array is conformal. The elements are single patch, dual band (L1/L2) and are linearly polarized. A mode former and progressive phase tapers are used.
US11070298B2
A fail-safe wireless power transmission system having a transmitter, a receiver, a receiver functionality monitor unit, a transmitter functionality monitor unit and at least two sensors. The transmitter has at least one low emission state, and at least one high emission state, the high emission states having higher emissions and more complex safety systems. The transmitter may be precluded from switching from a low emission state to any high emission states upon detection of a receiver control unit malfunction, a transmitter control unit malfunction, a likelihood of human-accessible emission from the system greater than a predetermined level, or an inconsistency between results arising from at least two of the sensors. Two different methods of such preclusion may be used simultaneously or consecutively to improve reliability. A transmitter control unit analyzes data from the sensors, and performs calculations to determine if and what type of preclusion is needed.
US11070297B2
System and method of adapting thresholds for constellation selection based on statistic distributions of received data symbols. To determine an adapted threshold, an expected ratio of received symbols with values in a certain range is preset based on an expected statistic distribution of data symbols across the multiple constellations. A first and a second ratios are defined based on the expected ratio, the first ratio being the expected ratio minus an error ratio and the second ratio being the expected ratio plus the error ratio. A first value is determined which makes the received symbols in a firs range to constitute the first ratio of a set of slicer inputs. A second value is determined which makes the received symbols in the second range to constitute the second ratio of a set of slicer outputs. The adapted threshold is then obtained based on the first and the second value.
US11070291B2
A communication terminal based on free space optical communication, a communication device, and a communication system are provided. The communication system includes a communication terminal, communication devices, and a master control device. The first communication device includes a light emitting unit configured to transmit an optical signal and a second switching control unit configured to establish a connection with the communication terminal that has received the optical signal. The communication terminal includes a light receiving unit configured to receive the optical signal transmitted by the first communication device and a first switching control unit configured to set the first communication device as a switching destination according to the optical signal. The master control device includes a third switching control unit configured to receive a switch request containing identification information of the communication terminal and transmit a connection instruction to the first switching control unit according to the switching request.
US11070290B2
A modulating circuit is disclosed which includes a switch, wherein the switch comprises a first terminal, a second terminal, a transistor, wherein the transistor comprises a third terminal, and a fourth terminal, a power converter, wherein the power converter comprises a power input, a multiplexer, wherein the multiplexer comprises an output, and a feedback controller, wherein the feedback controller comprises a first output, a third input, and a fourth input, wherein the power input is coupled to the first terminal, wherein the second terminal is coupled to the fourth terminal, wherein the third terminal is coupled to the first output, wherein the third input is coupled to the fourth terminal, wherein the fourth input is coupled to the output.
US11070289B1
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide a location-based remote testing service. The location-based remote testing service may receive a request for a remote test that includes location information indicating a location subject to a remote test. The service may correlate the location information to a network element of a network. The service may perform a remote test on the network element. The service may provide a result of the remote test to a device that requests the remote test.
US11070286B1
Systems and methods include determining a defragmentation plan that changes a configuration of a network to move the network from a current state of operation to a new state of operation; updating any of the defragmentation plan and the new state of operation in response to an opportunity presented during operation of the network; and implementing one or more steps in the defragmentation plan based on the opportunity. The opportunity can be anticipated to occur at a future time and implementation of the one or more steps is conditioned on occurrence of the opportunity. For example, the opportunity can include any of a maintenance window, a network equipment change, a capacity change in the network, a change to demand in the network, an external event including weather, and changes in links in the network. Also, the opportunity can include a fault.
US11070285B2
A method includes obtaining traffic demand data indicating user traffic demand through a communication system including a multistage interconnection network. The method also includes generating first path data based on the traffic demand data. The first path data represents a configuration of components of the multistage interconnection network to provide traffic paths through the multistage interconnection network. The method includes selectively generating second path data based on a determination that a potential failure of the multistage interconnection network cannot be isolated, based on the traffic paths, to a single component. The second path data represents a modified configuration of the components to provide the traffic paths and test paths through the multistage interconnection network to facilitate isolation of the failure of the multistage interconnection network to the single component. The method also includes sending configuration data based on the second path data to initiate configuration of the multistage interconnection network.
US11070280B2
A relay device includes, a storage configured to receive distributed video data, and store the received video data, a predictor configured to predict a communication disabled period in which the terminal device is disabled to perform communication, and a transmission controller configured to start transmission of the stored video data to the terminal device after a start delay period elapses from the start of the storing, wherein the transmission controller transmits the video data, which is to be played by the terminal device in a communication enabled period in which the terminal device is predicted to be enabled to perform communication and in the communication disabled period following the communication enabled period, to the terminal device in the communication enabled period.
US11070274B2
A receiving device for use in a wireless OFDM communication system comprises two or more receive antennas for receiving OFDM signals received over a channel from a transmission device having two or more transmit antennas and applying transmit beamforming, and circuitry configured to perform channel estimation to estimate the channel, generate transmit beamforming information based on the channel estimation, said transmit beamforming information comprising beamforming information per subcarrier or time domain tap, determine a reduced set of transmit beamforming information from said transmit beamforming information, wherein said reduced set comprises beamforming information for a reduced set of subcarriers in the frequency domain or for a reduced set of taps in the time domain, wherein the subcarriers of said reduced set or the taps of said reduced set are determined based on an error criterion, and feed back the reduced set of transmit beamforming information to the transmission device.
US11070270B2
An apparatus for a beamformee and a method are provided. The apparatus includes a first beamforming matrix device configured to generate a first beamforming matrix VWB from a channel H; an equivalent channel device configured to generate an equivalent channel {tilde over (H)}k based on the channel H and the first beamforming matrix VWB, where k is a number that indicates a subcarrier index; and a second beamforming matrix device configured to obtain a second beamforming matrix VSC from the equivalent channel {tilde over (H)}k.
US11070268B2
A wireless communication node comprising an antenna arrangement that is adapted to radiate at least one radiation beam of a first type and at least one radiation beam of a second type. Said at least one radiation beam of the first type has a first type beamwidth (BT1) and said at least one radiation beam of the second type has a second type beamwidth (BT2) that exceeds the first type beamwidth (BT1). Said at least one radiation beam of the first type is arranged for communication with at least a first other node, and where said at least one radiation beam of the second type is arranged for detection of changes in propagation paths for said other node and/or appearances of further other nodes.
US11070258B2
A system and method are described which enable planned evolution and obsolescence of multiuser wireless spectrum. One embodiment of such a system includes one or multiple centralized processors and one or multiple distributed nodes that communicate via wireline or wireless connections. The distributed nodes may share their identification number and other reconfigurable system parameters with the centralized processor. The information about all distributed nodes may be stored in a database that is shared by all centralized processors. The reconfigurable system parameters may comprise power emission, frequency band, modulation/coding scheme. The distributed nodes may be software defined radios such as FPGA, DSP, GPU and/or GPCPU that run algorithms for baseband signal processing and may be reconfigured remotely by the centralized processor. A cloud wireless system may be used wherein the distributed nodes are reconfigured periodically or instantly to adjust to the evolving wireless architecture.
US11070253B2
A near field communication device configured to receive a signal from an antenna and to generate a first in-phase signal and a first quadrature-phase signal by multiplying the signal with a first oscillation signal and a second oscillation signal; a first and second low-pass filter configured to generate a second in-phase signal and a second quadrature-phase signal; a first and second analog-to-digital converter configured to generate a third in-phase signal and a third quadrature-phase signal; a digital signal extractor configured to generate a first signal and a second signal based on the third in-phase signal, the third quadrature-phase signal, a first look-up table, and a second look-up table, select one from among the first signal and the second signal based on a signal pattern, and output the selected one as an extraction signal; and a modem configured to receive the extraction signal and to demodulate the extraction signal.
US11070252B2
To provide a circuit module, a bicycle electric component, and a communication system that are easily matched to a communication system that uses power line communication, a circuit module is configured to be mounted on a bicycle electric component. The circuit module includes a first circuit board, a communication converter configured to convert between information appropriate to power line communication and information appropriate to communication other than the power line communication and mounted on the first circuit board, and a plurality of first terminals formed on the first circuit board. The plurality of first terminals is connected to a second circuit board included in the electric component.
US11070248B2
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology exploits modulated coded impulses over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance for digital data transmission. Today's leading edge modulated sinusoidal wave wireless communication standards and systems achieve power efficiencies of 50 nJ/bit employing narrowband signaling schemes and traditional RF transceiver architectures. However, such designs severely limit the achievable energy efficiency, especially at lower data rates such as below 1 Mbps. Further, it is important that peak power consumption is supportable by common battery or energy harvesting technologies and long term power consumption neither leads to limited battery lifetimes or an inability for alternate energy sources to sustain them. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for next generation applications to exploit inventive transceiver structures and communication schemes in order to achieve the sub nJ per bit energy efficiencies required by next generation applications.
US11070247B2
Embodiments provide a transmission method of wireless transmission of data within a communication system (e.g. a sensor network or telemetry system). The system includes a step of transmitting the data while using at least two time hopping patterns and/or frequency hopping patterns, a second pattern of the at least two patterns being a time- and/or frequency-shifted version of a first pattern of the at least two patterns.
US11070244B2
A monolithic integrated circuit (IC), and method of manufacturing same, that includes all RF front end or transceiver elements for a portable communication device, including a power amplifier (PA), a matching, coupling and filtering network, and an antenna switch to couple the conditioned PA signal to an antenna. An output signal sensor senses at least a voltage amplitude of the signal switched by the antenna switch, and signals a PA control circuit to limit PA output power in response to excessive values of sensed output. Stacks of multiple FETs in series to operate as a switching device may be used for implementation of the RF front end, and the method and apparatus of such stacks are claimed as subcombinations. An iClass PA architecture is described that dissipatively terminates unwanted harmonics of the PA output signal. A preferred embodiment of the RF transceiver IC includes two distinct PA circuits, two distinct receive signal amplifier circuits, and a four-way antenna switch to selectably couple a single antenna connection to any one of the four circuits.
US11070242B2
A wireless transceiver. The transceiver includes: (i) a transmit signal path; (ii) a calibration path, comprising a conductor to connect a calibration tone into the transmit signal path; (iii) a receive signal path, comprising a first data signal path to process a first data and a second data signal path, different than the first data signal path, to process a second data; (iv) a first capacitive coupling to couple a response to the calibration tone from the transmit signal path to the first data signal path; and (v) a second capacitive coupling to couple a response to the calibration tone from the transmit signal path to the second data signal path.
US11070237B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that support channel selection for parity bits in polar coding techniques. In some cases, an encoder or decoder of a wireless device may assign information bits, frozen bits, and parity check bits to polar channels of an encoder or decoder based on reliability metrics. The information bits may initially be assigned and based on a channel index of the first information bit, the parity check bits may be assigned to channels having higher channel indices than the first information bit. After assignment, the bits may be encoded or decoded.
US11070236B2
A bit interleaving method involves applying a bit permutation process to a QC-LDPC codeword made up of N cyclic blocks each including Q bits, and dividing the codeword after the permutation process into a plurality of constellation words each including M bits, the codeword being divided into F×N/M folding sections, each of the constellation words being associated with one of the F×N/M folding sections, and the bit permutation process being applied such that each of the constellation words includes F bits from each of M/F different cyclic blocks in a given folding section associated with a given constellation word.
US11070231B2
A method of reducing the storage requirements of blockchain metadata via dictionary-style compression includes receiving a request to add a transaction block to a blockchain. The method further includes determining an identifier (ID) of a dictionary block most recently stored on the blockchain. The method further includes compressing, by a processing device, one or more transactions of the transaction block based on the dictionary block to generate a compressed transaction block. The method further includes adding the ID of the dictionary block to the compressed transaction block. The method further includes providing the compressed transaction block, including the ID of the dictionary block, for storage on the blockchain.
US11070226B2
An A/D conversion device, which operates in one mode including at least one of a ΔΣ mode, a cyclic mode, and a hybrid mode, includes: a first block that processes an analog input signal by a first amplifier; a second block including a second amplifier; a quantization unit that quantizes one of outputs of the first and second blocks; and a control circuit that switches the mode to perform a control corresponding to the mode.
US11070223B2
The disclosed apparatus, structures, and methods are directed to a wireless receiver. The configurations presented herein employ a structure operative to receive a plurality of analog signals, a signal encoder configured to encode the plurality of received analog signals into a single encoded analog composite signal based on a coding scheme operating under a first code rate, a signal reconstruction module configured to segregate and reconstruct the single encoded digital composite signal into a re-encoded digital composite signal in accordance with the coding scheme operating under a second code rate. In addition, a signal decoder configured to decode the digital composite signals based on the coding scheme operating under the second code rate, and to output digital signals, in which each digital signal in the plurality of digital signals corresponds to a respective analog signal of the plurality of received analog signals.
US11070221B1
An analog to digital converter (ADC) device includes ADC circuits, a calibration circuit, and a skew adjusting circuit. The ADC circuits convert an input signal according to interleaved clock signals, in order to generate first quantized outputs. The calibration circuit performs at least one calibration computation according to the first quantized outputs to generate second quantized outputs. The skew adjusting circuit determines maximum value signals, to which the second quantized outputs correspond in a predetermined interval, and averages the maximum value signals to generate a reference signal, and compares the reference signal with each of the maximum value signals to generate detecting signals, and determines whether the detecting signals are adjusted or not according to a signal frequency to generate adjusting signals, in order to reduce a clock skew in the ADC circuits.
US11070212B2
Provided is an oscillator including: a first resonator; a second resonator; a first oscillation circuit generating a first oscillation signal by oscillating the first resonator; a second oscillation circuit generating a second oscillation signal that has frequency-temperature characteristics different from frequency-temperature characteristics of the first oscillation signal by oscillating the second resonator; a clock signal generation circuit generating a clock signal with a frequency that is temperature compensated by temperature compensation data; and a processing circuit performing time digital conversion processing based on the first oscillation signal and the second oscillation signal, and obtaining the temperature compensation data based on measurement data of the time digital conversion processing.
US11070207B2
A bootstrapped switch is provided. The bootstrapped switch includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a capacitor and five switches. The first transistor receives an input voltage and outputs an output voltage. A first terminal of the second transistor receives the input voltage, and a second terminal of the second transistor is coupled to a first terminal of the capacitor. In a first clock phase, the capacitor is being charged. In a second clock phase, the control terminal of the first transistor and the control terminal of the second transistor are substantially equipotential with a second terminal of the capacitor. The control terminal of the first transistor and the control terminal of the second transistor are coupled to the power supply voltage within a predetermined time before the terminal of the first clock phase or within a predetermined time after the start of the second clock phase.
US11070202B2
A filter circuit includes a first rise delay circuit that delays a rising time of a first shifted signal by a predetermined time for output and a first fall delay circuit that delays a falling time of a second shifted signal by a predetermined time for output. The first rise delay circuit is configured so that a second rise delay signal does not follow a change in a first voltage toward a decreasing side and follows a change in the first voltage toward an increasing side. The first fall delay circuit is configured so that a second fall delay signal does not follow a change in the first voltage toward a decreasing side and follows a change in the first voltage toward an increasing side.
US11070198B2
A delay independent differential hysteresis receiver. The differential hysteresis receiver uses two parallel paths in a first receiver stage, each path having a comparator with a dedicated offset on the complimentary inputs. A second receiver stage includes a hold circuit that brings the two parallel paths of the first receiver stage together to form a receiver hysteresis output.
US11070194B2
The present disclosure relates to a ladder-type surface acoustic wave (SAW) device, which includes a piezoelectric layer, two reflective structures, at least one series interdigital transducer (IDT) coupled between a first signal point and a second signal point, and at least one shunt IDT. The at least one shunt IDT is coupled at least between the first signal point and ground, or between the second signal point and ground. Herein, the two reflective structures, the at least one series IDT, and the at least one shunt IDT reside over the piezoelectric layer. The at least one series IDT and the at least one shunt IDT are arranged between the two reflective structures.
US11070187B2
A multilayer band pass filter includes first and second LC parallel resonators. The first and second LC parallel resonators include a first inductor and a second inductor, respectively. The first inductor includes a first line conductive pattern, a first via conductive pattern, and a second via conductive pattern. The first line conductive pattern extends in the X-axis direction on a first dielectric layer. The first via conductive pattern and second via conductive pattern extend from the first line conductive pattern toward a second dielectric layer. The second inductor includes a third via conductive pattern extending in the Z-axis direction.
US11070180B2
A class AB buffer includes an output stage and an input stage. The output stage includes a first output transistor and a second output transistor. The second output transistor is coupled to the first output transistor. The input stage is coupled to the output stage. The input stage includes a first cascode transistor, a first switch, a second cascode transistor, and a second switch. The first switch is coupled to the first cascode transistor and the first output transistor. The second switch is coupled to the first switch, the second cascode transistor, and the first output transistor.
US11070179B2
An apparatus measures a speaker impedance. A DAC converts a known digital input signal to an audio frequency first analog voltage signal. Resistors with known resistance attenuate the first analog voltage signal to generate a current. The known resistance effectively determines the current because the known resistance is high relative to the speaker impedance. The current is sourced into the speaker to generate a second analog voltage signal. The known resistance is sufficiently high to cause the second analog voltage signal to be inaudible as transduced by the speaker. An amplifier amplifies the second analog voltage signal with a known gain to generate a third analog voltage signal. An ADC converts the third analog voltage signal to a digital output signal. A processing element calculates the impedance of the speaker proportional to the digital output signal based on the known digital input signal, the known resistance, and the known gain.
US11070171B2
Apparatus and methods for biasing power amplifiers are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a power amplifier includes a bipolar transistor having a base biased by a bias network having a reactance that controls an impedance at the transistor base to achieve substantially flat phase response over large dynamic power levels. For example, the bias network can have a frequency response, such as a high-pass or band-pass response, that reduces the impact of power level on phase distortion (AM/PM).
US11070157B2
An electric motor drive unit includes a winding switching unit that switches a configuration of windings of an electric motor, a winding switching instruction unit that generates an instruction signal for the winding switching unit, and a winding configuration retention unit to which the instruction signal generated by the winding switching instruction unit is input, and if the input instruction signal has a first value, outputs a signal corresponding to the input instruction signal to the winding switching unit, and if the input instruction signal has a second value different from the first value, continues outputting a signal that has been output to the winding switching unit before the reception of the second value, the first value indicating an instruction on the configuration of the windings.
US11070145B2
Provided is a power conversion control method including: calculating a pre-switching pulse time being a time from a first conductive state switching timing being a conductive state switching timing of a second bridge circuit immediately before a predetermined carrier wave switching timing, to the carrier wave switching timing; calculating a post-switching pulse time being a time from the carrier wave switching timing to a second conductive state switching timing being an initial conductive state switching timing after the carrier wave switching timing; when a conductive state of the second bridge circuit is not switched at the carrier wave switching timing, determining that switching of the carrier wave is disabled when the sum of the pre-switching pulse time and the post-switching pulse time is less than a predetermined pulse time sum threshold value; and when the conductive state of the second bridge circuit is switched at the carrier wave switching timing, determining that the switching of the carrier wave is disabled when the pre-switching pulse time or the post-switching pulse time is less than a predetermined pulse time threshold value.
US11070137B1
A resonant core power supply includes a core with excitation, resonant, and load windings where the resonant winding is coupled to a tank circuit and a controller manipulates the phase, amplitude and waveform of an excitation signal applied to the excitation winding.
US11070134B2
A control method for a DC/DC converter and a DC/DC converter are provided. The method includes: providing a primary side driving signal to drive one or more primary side switches of the primary side circuit; providing a sixth signal, a fifth signal, a seventh signal and an eighth signal, where a phase shift angle exists between the sixth signal and the primary side driving signal, and the sixth signal, the fifth signal, the seventh signal and the eighth signal in turn have a predetermined phase difference; driving a sixth switch, a fifth switch, a seventh switch and an eighth switch according to the sixth signal, the fifth signal, the seventh signal and the eighth signal, respectively; where the switching frequency of the sixth signal, the fifth signal, the seventh signal or the eighth signal is half of the switching frequency of the primary side driving signal.
US11070126B2
Provided is a power supply circuit in which a first end of a first inductor is connected to a path linking a first input terminal to a first connection point, a second end of the first inductor is connected to a first end of a bypass capacitor, a first end of a second inductor is connected to a path linking the first input terminal to a second connection point, a second end of the second inductor is connected to a first end of the bypass capacitor, a second end of the bypass capacitor is connected to a second output terminal, a first reactor and the first inductor are magnetically coupled to each other, a second reactor and the second inductor are magnetically coupled to each other, and a control circuit performs switching control over a first switching element and a second switching element, using an interleaving method.
US11070124B2
A power conversion device in one embodiment includes power conversion circuitry having a plurality of converter cells connected in series to each other. Each converter cell includes an energy storage device and is configured to be capable of discharging stored energy. A control device is configured to generate a control command for controlling operation of each converter cell. A protection device is configured to generate a protection command for instructing whether to cause each converter cell to operate based on the control command or to stop operation of each converter cell regardless of the control command. A repeating device is configured to generate a control-and-protection command that is a combination of control information based on the control command and protection information based on the protection command, and output the generated control-and-protection command to each converter cell.
US11070120B2
An actuator is provided. In the actuator, a first magnetic drive circuit and a third magnetic drive circuit that vibrate a movable body in a second direction with respect to a support are provided respectively on both sides in a first direction. A second magnetic drive circuit that vibrates the movable body in a third direction with respect to the support is provided. The first magnetic drive circuit, the second magnetic drive circuit and the third magnetic drive circuit are arranged to be sequentially stacked from one side to the other side in the first direction.
US11070111B2
An inverter substrate has a plurality of heat generating elements mounted thereon and disposed at intervals from each other. A housing has an inverter housing section that accommodates the inverter substrate. The inverter housing section has a first member that faces one plate surface of a pair of plate surfaces of the inverter substrate, a second member that faces the other plate surface of the pair of plate surfaces, and a plurality of heat conductive sheets that are disposed between the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate and are brought into contact with the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate. The heat conductive sheets are thermally connected to the heat generating elements. The heat conductive sheets are individually disposed at positions at which the heat conductive sheets overlap the plurality of heat generating elements in a plan view of the inverter substrate.
US11070110B2
A cooling system includes a rotary electric machine, a pump that pumps coolant, a first coolant flow path that guides coolant to the rotary electric machine, a second coolant flow path branching off from the first coolant flow path, a pressure regulation valve provided in the second coolant flow path, a first orifice provided at downstream than the pressure regulation valve in the second coolant flow path in coolant flow direction, a third coolant flow path branching off from between the pressure regulation valve and the first orifice in the second coolant flow path and joining to a downstream than the branching position of the second coolant flow path in the first coolant flow path in coolant flow direction, and a switching valve provided in the third coolant flow path and that allows coolant flow to the first coolant flow path when experiencing a pressure of a threshold or more.
US11070103B2
A motor includes a stator core, teeth respectively protruding from the stator core, and coils respectively wound onto the teeth n (n is an integer of 2 or greater) turns including first to n-th turns. Within each of ranges respectively wound with the coils onto the teeth in directions of protrusion of the teeth from the stator core, the first turn of each of the coil lies adjacent to a center of the motor. A k-th (k is an integer, 1
US11070102B2
A motor using a printed circuit board may include: a first base part forming a first circuit board on which a coil pattern is printed; a second base part forming a second circuit board on which the coil pattern is printed, the second base part spaced apart from the first base part; and a plurality of side parts forming side circuit boards on which the coil pattern is printed, the plurality of side parts connected to the first base part and the second base part, respectively, such that the coil pattern successively connects the first base part, the second base part, and the plurality of side parts.
US11070100B2
A stator for an electric machine includes a stator carrier having a plurality of grooves with a respective groove base, and a motor winding having at least one first strand. A predetermined number of first grooves of the plurality of grooves is associated with the first strand. At least one coil section of the first strand is introduced into each of the first grooves. The first strand has a plurality of individual wires connected electrically in parallel, with each wire formed as a round wire. At least some of the individual wires in each of the coil sections are arranged above one another in a radial direction of the stator. The coil sections are each arranged in the first grooves in such a way that an average radial distance of the individual wires to the groove base is equal for all individual wires.
US11070094B2
A wireless power transmission method includes: receiving a communication signal from a wireless power receiver; determining, based on the communication signal, phases of polarization channels of a reference antenna array, at which the wireless power receiver receives maximum power; determining, by activating a first antenna array together with the reference antenna array, phases of polarization channels of the first antenna array such that the wireless power receiver receives maximum power; determining, by deactivating the first antenna array and activating a second antenna array together with the reference antenna array, phases of polarization channels of the second antenna array such that the wireless power receiver receives maximum power; and transmitting, to the wireless power receiver, a power signal generated by using the antenna arrays, the phases of which are determined.
US11070086B2
A power receiving unit includes a secondary resonant coil for receiving electric power from a primary resonant coil using magnetic resonance or electric field resonance, a secondary coil capable of changing a number of turns or a pitch of a winding for receiving the electric power from the secondary resonant coil using electromagnetic induction, a rectification circuit, and a controller. The electric power received by the secondary coil is rectified by the rectification circuit, and transmitted to a DC-DC converter for supplying the electric power to a load circuit. The controller changes the number of turns or the pitch of the winding of the secondary coil such that an input voltage of the DC-DC converter does not exceed an upper limit, based on a magnitude of the electric power received from the primary resonant coil.
US11070081B2
A smart circuit breaker is configured for installation within a panel assembly. The smart circuit breaker includes a breaker device positioned between a power source and a subcircuit, the breaker device having a moveable contactor configured to change from an open state to a closed state, wherein in the closed state power flows from the power source to the subcircuit via a power line, and wherein in the open state power does not flow from the power source to the subcircuit. The smart circuit breaker further includes a power meter configured to measure a power characteristic of the subcircuit. The smart circuit breaker further includes a processing circuit configured to receive a power characteristic measurement from the power meter, the processing circuit having a communications interface configured to communicate power consumption data to an external device, the power consumption data based on the power characteristic.
US11070069B2
A charger including a USB type-C input port configured to receive power from a power supply, a plurality of output ports each configured to couple to one of a plurality of devices to be charged, and a control logic circuit operatively coupled to the plurality of output ports and configured to manage power to the plurality of output ports. The control logic circuit is hardwired to prioritize power to a first output port of the plurality of output ports when the output port is coupled to a device such that an amount of the received power is allocated to the output port instead of at least one of the plurality of output ports that is coupled to a second device and the control logic circuit does not include an electronic processor.
US11070067B2
A battery management unit for a battery module, the battery management unit including a sensing unit electrically connected to a plurality of battery cells, the sensing unit detecting voltage of each battery cell of the plurality of battery cells and outputting a detection signal including voltage information representing the detected voltage, a first power supply unit generating a first operating voltage using a module voltage of the battery module, and a communication unit which operates using the first operating voltage, the communication unit including an antenna, a wireless communication circuit and a first input port, the communication unit receiving the detection signal from the sensing unit through the first input port, testing at least one preset item based on the detection signal, and outputting a RF signal representing a result of the testing through the antenna and the wireless communication circuit.
US11070064B2
A method (110) of controlling an imbalance response in a power plant comprising first and second gas turbine engines and a steam turbine driven by steam generated by exhaust from the first and second gas turbine engines can comprise operating the first gas turbine engine at a first power output (116A), operating the second gas turbine engine at a second power output (116B), monitoring load demand from a power grid operating at a steady state condition (114), detecting a load imbalance on the power grid (120) that causes a deviation from the steady state condition, and adjusting the first power output and the second power output incongruently (128) during the imbalance response to change the first power output and the second power output to match the deviation from the steady state condition depending on contemporaneous efficiency states of the first and second gas turbine engines.
US11070061B2
A load management system for a hydroelectric power plant, includes a power generator configured to generate electrical energy from a flow of water for supplying a power grid, a virtual reservoir configured to store the generated electrical energy and dispatch the stored electrical energy to the power grid; a plurality of circuit breakers that connect an output of the power generator to the power grid and to the virtual reservoir; and a control unit configured to control operating states of the plurality of circuit breakers so that the generated electrical energy is stored at the virtual reservoir and at least one of the generated electrical energy or the stored electrical energy is provided to the power grid.
US11070060B2
A prediction of an electric power consumption and/or a generation of at least one of a load and a source coupled to an electric power grid is generated responsive to a forecast of an event. A desired state of an asset on the grid is identified responsive to the prediction. A functional representation of a control scheme for the asset is identified based on a sensitivity of the control parameter to a variance in operation of the electric power grid with respect to the prediction.
US11070053B2
A fast-operating AC fault current limiter, to limit the fault current let through to downstream equipment during short circuit or low-impedance faults, comprises a series inductor to limit current rise time, a current sensor to sense the instantaneous current, a series AC semiconductor switch to interrupt current flow when it exceeds the maximum desired fault current, and a shunt AC semiconductor switch to catch inductor flyback voltage when the series semiconductor switch is opened. Each of the series and the shunt AC switches comprises two back-to-back MOSFETs. Inventive control of timing of the individual MOSFETs obviates the need for exact simultaneous timing of opening the series switch and closing the shunt switch, which is otherwise required to avoid short circuits.
US11070048B2
An overcurrent protection circuit, an overcurrent protection method, and a display device are disclosed. The overcurrent protection circuit includes: a voltage generation circuit, a current detection circuit, and a microcontroller. An input end of the voltage generation circuit is connected to a power supply, an output end of the voltage generation circuit is connected to an input end of the current detection circuit, and a first output end of the current detection circuit is connected to a first input end of the microcontroller. The voltage generation circuit generates a low-order voltage, and transmits the low-order voltage to the current detection circuit. The current detection circuit generates a first current value based on the low-order voltage and transmits the first current value to the microcontroller. The microcontroller outputs a set overcurrent protection value based on a total current value of the overcurrent protection circuit and the first current value.
US11070043B1
Cable splice sleeve assemblies and methods of housing cables. The assemblies may include reversibly engageable segments configured with interlocking ends. When engaged, the segments form a seal that insulates cable terminals disposed within the sleeve assembly. Some assemblies include extensions that may be biased to improve sealing capabilities.
US11070034B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling the ionic wind generator. comprising an electrode body 10, an AC power source 20, and a DC power source 30. The electrode body 10 has a first electrode layer 12, a second electrode layer 14, a third electrode layer 16, and a dielectric layer 18, such that when a voltage is applied between the first electrode layer 12 and the second electrode layer 14 by the AC power source 20, and a voltage is applied between the second electrode layer 14 and the third electrode layer 16 by the DC power source 30, an ionic wind can be generated in a direction away from the dielectric layer 18. An AC voltage is preferably set to 6 to 20 kVpp, and a DC voltage is preferably set to 6 to 20 kV.
US11070032B2
A laser assembly (1210) for generating an assembly output beam (1212) includes a laser subassembly (1216) that emits a plurality of spaced apart first laser beams (1220A), a plurality of spaced apart second laser beams (1220B), a transform lens assembly (1244), a wavelength selective beam combiner (1246), and a path length adjuster (1299). The transform lens assembly (1244) collimates and directs the laser beams (1220A) (1220B) to spatially overlap at a focal plane of the transform lens assembly (1244). The path length adjuster (1299) is positioned in a path of the first laser beams (1220A), the path length adjuster (1299) being adjustable to adjust of a path length the first laser beams (1220A) relative to the second laser beams (1220B).
US11070031B2
A low voltage laser device having an active region configured for one or more selected wavelengths of light emissions.
US11070027B2
A wavelength tunable light source includes a wavelength tunable laser device and a control device. The wavelength tunable laser device includes: M laser diodes configured to generate laser oscillation to output beams; a multiplexer/demultiplexer configured to multiplex the beams output from the M laser diodes to bifurcate the beams for output; a first semiconductor optical amplifier configured to amplify one output beam of the bifurcated beams to output a first emitted beam; and a second semiconductor optical amplifier configured to amplify another output beam of the bifurcated beams to output a second emitted beam. The control device is configured to perform wavelength switching control on wavelengths of the first emitted beam and the second emitted beam by switching an electric power input to the second semiconductor optical amplifier.
US11070026B2
A resonant H-bridge laser driver circuit topology is described that can achieve high current levels at narrow pulse widths while using smaller transistor sizes. The resonant H-bridge topology can utilize parasitic inductors in conjunction with an external capacitor to create a resonant circuit in parallel with the load.
US11070022B1
The present disclosure discloses a sector-shaped closely-packed laser generator, comprising a module packaging unit and a closely-packed output unit; the module packaging unit is provided therein with a plurality of single-die modules, and each of the single-die modules has a coupling optical fiber; the closely-packed output unit is provided therein with a silicon wafer whose surface has a plurality of V-shaped grooves, and the plurality of V-shaped grooves are arranged into a sector shape; and the coupling optical fibers of the single-die modules protrude from the module packaging unit and enter the closely-packed output unit, and are arranged in the V-shaped grooves after coating layers being stripped, to emit laser lights in directions of the arrangement of the V-shaped grooves. In the present application, the plurality of single-die modules are collectively disposed in the module packaging unit, and the coupling optical fibers of the single-die modules are led out and arranged in the V-shaped grooves arranged in a sector shape, which realizes the close arrangement of the coupling optical fibers, obtains the effect of modularized and integrated packaging of single die, and effectively reduces the volume of the laser generator. Furthermore, by closely arranging the coupling optical fibers in the V-shaped grooves arranged in a sector shape, the present disclosure can control the light emitting direction of the coupling optical fibers.
US11070013B2
A connector assembly having an outer ground contact and a one piece over-molded housing and a method of assembly. The outer ground contact has an outer contact socket portion and an outer contact termination portion. The outer contact termination portion has openings which extend through a wall of the outer contact termination portion. The one piece over-molded housing has a nose cone portion, an inner dielectric portion and transition portions which extend between the nose cone portion and the inner dielectric portion. The nose cone portion is positioned outside of the outer contact termination portion. The inner dielectric portion positioned inside of the outer contact termination portion. The transition portions extend from the nose cone portion, through the openings, to the inner dielectric portion. The positioning of the transition portions in the openings securely mounts the outer grounding contact to the housing.
US11070010B2
An overheating destructive disconnecting method for switch, whereby an operating member applies a first elastic force under normal conditions to enable the movable conductive member contacts a first conductive member and a second conductive member to form a conductive circuit; and a second elastic force to enable the movable conductive member to separate from the first conductive member or the second conductive member. The installation position of the overheating destructive member is used to receive heat energy instead of allowing current to flow thereto. When the overheating destructive member is destructed or deformed under a fail temperature condition, lessening or loss of the force applied by the first elastic force towards the movable conductive member causes the movable conductive member to no longer allow electrical conduction to the first conductive member and the second conductive member, thereby breaking the current-carrying circuit.
US11070004B2
A magnetic connector assembly has a female connector with spring-loaded conductive pins slightly protruding inside a recess or cavity in the female connector's body. A corresponding male connector has a protrusion on its body with conductive pins slightly indented into the protrusion's surface. The protrusion on the male connector is sized and shaped to fit into the cavity in the female connector such that the male connector's pins engage the pins of the female connector, allowing for electrical communication across the connector assembly. Magnets on the male and female connectors secure them in a correct orientation. A unique shape ensures proper alignment of the pins and prevents the connection of incompatible devices.
US11070000B2
An electrical socket includes a magnet connected to a shield. The shield blocks access to receptacles of the socket when the magnet is at a rest position but moves away and allows access to the receptacles when the magnet is moved away from its rest position. The magnet is attached to a spring so that the spring pulls the magnet toward the rest position. A plug includes a plug magnet to attract the socket's magnet. When the plug is brought close to the socket, the socket magnet is pulled away from the rest position, moving the shield away and allowing the plug to be inserted.
US11069999B2
An electrical terminal assembly includes a contact member that has a contact base. Contact arms extend from the contact base in an arm direction on opposite sides of a terminal plane. A connection portion extends from the contact base and includes a connection surface. A mount hole that extends through the connection portion and the connection surface. The electrical terminal assembly also includes a spring member supported on the contact member and including a spring base. Spring arms extend from the spring base on opposite sides of the terminal plane. The spring arms extend into engagement with the contact arms at respective spring contacts. A shroud is connected to the spring base and extends around the contact arms and beyond the contact arms in the arm direction.
US11069991B2
A joint of a copper terminal and an aluminum wire, the copper terminal is divided into a connecting part and a functional part connected to the connecting part, and an aluminum wire core of the aluminum wire is connected to the connecting part of the copper terminal. Preferably, the aluminum wire core extends or does not extend to the functional part. The connecting part is a component of the copper terminal that is connected with the aluminum wire, and the functional part is a fixed area of the copper terminal that is configured to connect to a power consumption device.
US11069986B2
Omni-directional orthogonally-polarized antenna system for MIMO applications are disclosed herein. An example antenna system can have two arrays of horizontally polarized radiating elements, and two arrays of vertically polarized radiating elements, each array having roughly 180-degree radiation pattern, disposed about a central axis in a common horizontal plane, arrays of common polarization separated by 180-degrees, such that MIMO processing of signals to the arrays of common polarization results in a radiation pattern that is substantially constant over 360-degrees in azimuth.
US11069982B2
A portable anechoic chamber is described herein. The chamber includes a housing including an interior, and the housing defines an opening sized to provide access to the interior. A layer of radar absorbent material lines the interior, and a reflective device is positioned within the interior. The reflective device is positioned to receive and reflect a radar beam emitted from a radar source.
US11069977B2
A liquid crystal alignment agent according to the present invention includes: an alignment film forming material; and an organic solvent. The organic solvent contains a compound which has at least two functional groups selected from the group consisting of a methylene group, a methyl group, an ether group, a ketone group, and a hydroxyl group, and does not contain a nitrogen atom.
US11069968B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an outer housing that comprises a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a side surface surrounding a space between the first surface and the second surface, a display adapted to expose at least a portion of the display through the first surface of the outer housing, a PCB arranged between the second surface and the display in an interior of the outer housing, a communication circuit arranged on or over the PCB, a first conductive structure formed of at least one of the first surface or at least a portion of the side surface is electrically connected to the communication circuit, and a second conductive structure formed of the portion of the display electrically connected to the first conductive structure.
US11069967B2
A satellite dish cover apparatus for protecting a satellite dish and preventing signal interference includes a main dish cover comprising a circular front panel, a perimeter extension, and a rounded back panel. The back panel has an installation aperture configured to receive a satellite dish such that a front face of the satellite dish is fully covered by the front panel. A feed horn cover hood is coupled to a feed horn cover arm extending from the front panel and is configured to receive the feed horn of the satellite dish. A mounting arm is coupled to the back panel and extends out of the installation aperture. A mounting clamp is coupled to the mounting arm and is configured to selectively engage a support post of the satellite dish.
US11069966B2
The present invention relates to a wire embedding head for forming an antenna cable comprising multiple wires and, more particularly, to a wire embedding head for forming an antenna cable comprising multiple wires, which: allows wires to be embedded in a substrate while being connected in a parallel pattern by means of an ultrasonic wave generating part and multiple wire embedding horns so as to form an antenna cable; and enables an arrangement of the antenna cable embedded in the substrate and connected in a parallel pattern to be formed very densely by using a distinguishing coupling relation between the substrate and the multiple wires embedded in the substrate.
US11069962B2
An antenna assembly for a portable radio includes a removable speaker cover having a plurality of speaker ports and an antenna mounting aperture extending through the removable speaker cover. The antenna assembly also includes a sheet metal antenna element coupled to the removable speaker cover along at least one of a top or side surface of the removable speaker cover, the sheet metal antenna element having a jogged portion that extends into the antenna mounting aperture. The antenna assembly also includes a contact plate disposed below the removable speaker cover and aligned with the antenna mounting aperture. The contact plate is coupled to the jogged portion to provide an electrical connection between the contact plate and the jogged portion.
US11069952B2
A diagnostic apparatus for analysis, testing, inspecting and/or screening an integrated and assembled electrically powered equipment rack and its populated cards and devices for measurement of degree of device aging, improper operation, degradation, condition, and/or Remaining Useful Life (RUL). The device includes an antenna card with a detachably attachable antenna module that can be positioned at a distance from the electrically devices under test and a signal receiver or sensor for examining a signal from the electrically powered device, but especially applied to rackmount supported electronics and/or chassis based electronics. The receiver or sensor collects unintended and/or intended RF energy components emitted by the electrically powered device and performs the above analysis in a response to the acquired signal input while the electrically powered device is active or powered.
US11069951B2
Methods, systems, and devices for furlable antenna blade components are provided in accordance with various embodiments. For example, some embodiments include a device that may include one or more furlable antenna blade components; each of the one or more furlable antenna blade components may include one or more conductive elements. In some embodiments, each of the one or more furlable antenna blade components include one or more laminate layers. Some embodiments include a method that may include: furling one or more furlable antenna blade components around a central axis; and/or securing the one or more furlable antennae blade components when in a furled state.
US11069938B2
In certain embodiments, a system includes a belt for mechanically linking multiple energy storage cells together, wherein the multiple energy storage cells are grouped into at least first and second energy storage packs, each energy storage pack including at least one energy storage cell, the at least one energy storage cell of the first energy storage pack having a different energy storage characteristic from the at least one energy storage cell of the second energy storage pack. The system further includes an operational zone for receiving an energy storage pack and establishing an electrical connection between the received energy storage pack and an electrical device, and an actuator operable to move the multiple energy storage cells together to thereby dispose the first energy storage pack in the operational zone to establish the electrical connection with the electrical device.
US11069937B2
The present disclosure provides an enclosing element for enclosing and electrically contacting a stacked arrangement of a plurality of electrical storage cells; an enclosing module comprising a first and a second enclosing element which is spatially separated from said first enclosing element; and a storage module comprising a stacked arrangement of a plurality of electrical storage cells. The present disclosure also provides a load disconnector as well as an arrangement for supplying electrical energy comprising the storage module and the load disconnector. The present disclosure further provides a trough for holding storage modules, and a transport vehicle containing said storage module, said arrangement for supplying electrical energy, said load disconnector or said trough.
US11069936B2
An electric work vehicle includes a battery container provided in a traveling vehicle body and including a guiding unit, and a battery pack removably attached to the battery container and including a guided unit. A pair of rollers are provided in one of the guiding unit and the guided unit, and a pair of engaging portion to be engaged with the rollers are provided in the other of the guiding unit and the guided unit. When the battery pack is loaded or unloaded onto/from the battery container at the loading/unloading position, the rollers engage with the engaging portions, thereby functioning as pivot fulcrums for enabling the battery pack to pivot for loading and unloading.
US11069935B2
A cell and a battery are provided. The cell includes an electrode assembly and a packaging bag, the electrode assembly includes a first electrode sheet provided with a first coating layer and a first uncoated region, the packaging bag includes a first body, the electrode assembly is disposed in the packaging bag, and the first uncoated region is electrically connected with the first body. Further, the electrode assembly may further include a second electrode sheet provided with a second coating layer and a second uncoated region, the packaging bag may further include a second body, and the second uncoated region is electrically connected with the second body.
US11069934B2
An air-metal battery utilizes a magnesium anode, a carbon cathode, and a conductive fluid including glycol and water. The anode and cathode are provided in a fuel card assembly that is replaceable as a unit.
US11069933B2
This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles. An exemplary battery pack assembly process may include supporting one or more components, such as a heat exchanger plate, of the battery pack against deflection during the assembly process. Supporting the heat exchanger plate to keep the plate relatively flat during the battery pack assembly process improves the flow distribution of a thermal interface material (TIM), thereby achieving improved TIM coverage and improved heat transfer between battery cells and the heat exchanger plate of the battery pack.
US11069932B2
A battery module includes: a plurality of cylindrical battery cells each having electrode terminals respectively at an upper portion and a lower portion thereof; a module housing including an accommodation portion having hollow structures in which the cylindrical battery cells are inserted and accommodated; a current collecting plate on an outer surface of the module housing and including welding holes through which the electrode terminals of the cylindrical battery cells are exposed to the outside; a bus bar in contact with each of the electrode terminals and the current collecting plate to electrically connect the electrode terminals to the current collecting plate; and a heat conduction pad disposed outside the current collecting plate and including a contact protrusion portion protruding and extending in a direction in which the electrode terminals are disposed to be in contact with a contact connection portion between the electrode terminals and the bus bar.
US11069930B2
An energy storage apparatus including: an outer case having a bottom wall and a side wall; an energy storage device; an insulating member disposed at a position where the energy storage device is sandwiched between the bottom wall and the insulating member; a first adhesive layer which makes the insulating member and the energy storage device adhere to each other; and a second adhesive layer which makes the insulating member and the side wall adhere to each other.
US11069928B2
Provided is a vehicle battery device in which number of battery cells can be easily increased, a large number of battery cells can be arranged at high density, and connection with the outside can also be easily performed. The vehicle battery device includes: a battery cell mounting part accommodating a battery cell group constituted by a plurality of laminated battery cells; and an interface box integrating connection functions between the battery cell mounting part and the outside, wherein the battery cell mounting part is connected to at least one of two opposing side surfaces in an outer surface of the interface box; and the interface box has, on any outer surface other than the side surface connected with the battery cell mounting part, a connection part capable of connecting the interface boxes to each other.
US11069927B2
A power storage device includes a storage battery capable of transferring electric power to and from an external electric power network, and a controller configured to control charge and discharge of the storage battery according to an electric power request. The electric power request includes a first request for requesting switching between short-term charge and discharge from the storage battery to the electric power network, and a second request for requesting continuous discharge from the storage battery to the electric power network. The electric power request to be transmitted to the power storage device which is issued by a server device configured to manage the charge and discharge of the storage battery in the power storage device varies according to a variable representing a state of charge of the storage battery by a level of a value.
US11069922B2
Provided is a liquid electrolyte for lithium ion batteries, which shows an increased oxidation-side potential in a potential window than ever before. A liquid electrolyte for lithium ion secondary batteries, the liquid electrolyte containing a lithium salt of a sulfonimide and water, wherein the liquid electrolyte contains at least one kind of anion selected from the group consisting of an orthophosphoric ion, a pyrophosphate ion, an anion resulting from dissociation of phosphorous acid or a salt thereof, and an anion resulting from dissociation of phosphinic acid or a salt thereof.
US11069920B2
A solid-state battery comprises an anode in electrical contact with an anode current collector, including a first ionically conductive solid electrolyte material having a susceptibility to reduction in a presence of lithium metal such that, upon contact with lithium, the ionically conductive material partially reduces to a mixed ionic and electronic conductor including a partially reduced species, a cathode, and a separator positioned between and in ionic contact with the anode and cathode. The separator is formed of a second ionically conductive solid electrolyte material which is in contact with the first ionically conductive material but not susceptible to reduction in a presence of lithium metal and not soluble for the partially reduced species such that the separator has a susceptibility for migration of lithium ions from the mixed ionic and electronic conductor and impedes propagation or exchange of the partially reduced species from the mixed ionic and electronic conductor.
US11069917B2
A method for fabricating a stacked battery structure. The method includes preparing a plurality of battery layers separately, wherein each battery layer includes a substrate, a film battery element fabricated on the substrate and an insulator formed over the film battery element. The insulator has a flat top surface and the film battery element includes a current collector. The method also includes stacking the plurality of battery layers, wherein the insulator of a first battery layer of the plurality of battery layers bonds to the substrate of a second battery layer of the plurality of battery layers by the flat top surface. The method further includes forming a conductive path within the plurality of battery layers, wherein the conductive path connects with at least one of the current collectors of the plurality of battery layers.
US11069915B2
A spring member is used in a fuel cell stack. The spring member includes a planar portion and a spring portion. The planar portion is joined to a separator in a state of surface contact with the separator. The spring portion extends from the planar portion and generates an elastic force for pressing the separator toward a power generation cell by receiving force in a stacking direction of a cell unit and undergoing bending deformation.
US11069905B2
A method for manufacturing a fuel cell separator that ensures an improved corrosion resistance under usage environment of a fuel cell and restraining an increase of a contact resistance with a power generation unit by enhancing a sticking force of a conductive carbon film formed on a surface in contact with the power generation unit on a surface of a titanium substrate is provided. It is a method for manufacturing a fuel cell separator. The fuel cell separator includes a contact portion that is in contact with a power generation unit so as to partition the power generation units including electrodes of the fuel cell, and includes a conductive carbon film formed on the contact portion. First, a titanium substrate that has a plurality of projecting portions formed corresponding to a shape of the contact portion and recessed portions for gas flow channels formed between the projecting portions are prepared as a substrate of the separator. Next, a heat treatment is performed on the titanium substrate in a state where a carbon sheet is brought in contact with the projecting portions such that carbon of the carbon sheet diffuses in the projecting portions.
US11069902B2
The present invention provides a catalyst electrode for oxygen evolution comprising an electrode current collector comprising a carbon fiber fabric, a nanowire layer comprising a metal oxide-based porous nanowire grown radially from the surface of the carbon fiber, and a porous carbon coating layer disposed around the outer surface of the nanowire, thereby maximizing the specific surface area and increasing the electron transfer rate, and thus exhibiting an excellent catalytic activity for oxygen evolution reaction, and a preparation method thereof.
US11069896B2
This invention is directed to a hydrophobic, ionically-conductive coating for a metal surface comprising a plurality of organic surface moieties covalently bound to the metal surface, and at least one ionic liquid nanoscale ionic material tethered to at least one surface moiety.
US11069882B2
Provided are an optical unit and a display device being able to inhibit unwanted light, which is generated when a dichroic mirror transmits part of color light to be reflected, from being emitted from an emission surface of a dichroic prism. In the optical unit, color filters (a first color filter, a second color filter, and a third color filter) are provided between a dichroic prism and a first panel, a second panel, and a third panel, the color filters selectively transmitting light of wavelengths incident on the dichroic prism from each of the panels. Further, an optical resonator, which has a resonance wavelength corresponding to a wavelength range of image light incident on the dichroic prism from each of the panels, is provided on the first panel, the second panel, and the third panel.
US11069880B2
A display device may include a display configured to emit light for displaying an image, a microlens array on the display and configured to collimate the image incident from the display so as to be delivered to the eyes of a user, the microlens array including a refractive index conversion layer in which a refractive index varies from region to region, and an optical path adjustment layer configured to collect light, emitted from the display and transmitted by the microlens array, and to space the display and the microlens array a preset distance apart from each other. Here, the refractive index conversion layer may include a polymer and liquid crystal molecules that interact with the polymer.
US11069879B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode display device. The disclosed organic light emitting diode display device includes an overcoat layer disposed on a substrate that is divided into an emissive area and a non-emissive area, and has multiple micro lenses in the emissive area and at least one depression in the non-emissive area. The organic light emitting diode display device further includes: a first electrode disposed on the overcoat layer, wherein the first electrode is disposed in the entire emissive area and in a part of the non-emissive area; a bank pattern disposed in the non-emissive area so as to be superposed on the depression; an organic light emitting layer disposed on the substrate; and a second electrode disposed on the organic light emitting layer. Accordingly, the organic light emitting diode display device may prevent light leakage.
US11069878B2
A display unit including a first substrate and a second substrate that are disposed to face each other, a first organic insulating layer on the first substrate, a plurality of light-emitting elements arrayed in a display region, the display region on the first organic insulating layer and facing the second substrate and a first moisture-proof film covering the first organic insulating layer in a peripheral region, in which the peripheral region is provided on the first substrate and surrounds the display region.
US11069874B2
An organic EL element includes a pixel electrode, a light emitting function layer that is formed on the pixel electrode, an electron injection layer formed on the light emitting function layer, and a counter electrode that is formed on the electron injection layer and that has semi-transmissive reflectivity, in which the counter electrode contains a reductive material that reduces material of the electron injection layer and Ag with atomic ratio of 75% or more, and an adsorption layer is formed on the counter electrode.
US11069871B2
Provided is an organic white light emitting element (EL) including: a reflective electrode, a light extraction electrode, and an organic layer arranged therebetween, the organic layer including: a blue light emitting layer (BL); and a long-wavelength light emitting layer, the long-wavelength light emitting layer arranged between the BL and the reflective electrode, the BL provided at such a position as to satisfy Equation given below: z=φ×λ1/4π where z represents an optical distance between the reflective electrode and an interface of the BL on the reflective electrode side, φ represents a phase of light reflected by the reflective electrode in an emission wavelength region of the BL, and λ1 represents a wavelength in a visible light region, and the EL has a resonator structure defined between the reflective electrode and the light extraction electrode and has a maximum peak resonant wavelength in a blue light wavelength region.
US11069870B2
A photovoltaic solar cell apparatus is described herein combining the advantages of several discoveries that address the previously unsolved problem of creating high conversion efficiency solar cells at a low cost. The solar cell designs and underlying principals disclosed herein may be applied in any type of photovoltaic solar power application, such as large scale photovoltaic solar plants, rooftop panels, solar powered electronic devices, and many others.
US11069864B2
The present invention includes novel six member aromatic or heteroaromatic rings fused to aza-DBX as ligands for making dopants for OLED applications.
US11069860B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds of Formula (I) as compounds capable of emitting delayed fluorescence, and uses of these compounds in organic light-emitting diodes.
US11069858B2
The present specification provides a compound of Chemical Formula 1, and an organic light emitting device including the same. The compound of Chemical Formula 1 used in one or more organic material layers of an organic light emitting device provides enhanced efficiency, lowered driving voltage, and increased lifetime of the device.
US11069852B2
A magnetoresistance effect element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a tunnel barrier layer that is interposed between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer. The tunnel barrier layer is a stacked body including one or more high-barrier-height layers and one or more low-barrier-height layers, the one or more high-barrier-height layers having a relatively high barrier height with respect to the one or more low-barrier-height layers and the one or more low-barrier-height layers having a relatively low barrier height with respect to the one or more high-barrier-height layers. A minimum difference of barrier height between the one or more high-barrier-height layers and the one or more low-barrier-height layers is equal to or higher than 0.5 eV.
US11069844B2
A light-emitting device and a method for manufacturing a light emitting device are disclosed. In an embodiment a light-emitting device includes a light-emitting semiconductor chip having a light-outcoupling surface and an optical element arranged on the light-outcoupling surface, wherein the light-emitting semiconductor chip is laterally surrounded by a frame element in a form-locking manner, wherein the optical element is mounted on the frame element, wherein the frame element projects beyond the light-outcoupling surface in a vertical direction such that a gas-filled gap is present at least in a partial region between the light-outcoupling surface and the optical element, and wherein the frame element has a channel connecting the gap to an atmosphere surrounding the light-emitting device.
US11069843B2
A light-emitting device includes: a light-emitting element; a first light-diffusion layer disposed laterally to the light-emitting element and constituting a first portion of lateral surfaces of the light-emitting device; a second light-diffusion layer disposed above the light-emitting element and the first light-diffusion layer and constituting a second portion of the lateral surfaces of the light-emitting device; a light-control portion disposed between the first light-diffusion layer and the second light-diffusion layer and configured to reflect a portion of light emitted from the light-emitting element; and a first light-reflection layer disposed on the second light-diffusion layer.
US11069841B2
A multilayer ceramic converter with stratified scattering is disclosed. In an embodiment a ceramic wavelength converter assembly having a layered structure includes a phosphor layer, an upper barrier layer, and a lower barrier layer, wherein the phosphor layer is at least partially disposed between the upper barrier layer and the lower barrier layer.
US11069837B2
A light emitting diode (LED) includes a n-doped semiconductor material layer located over a substrate, an active region including an optically active compound semiconductor layer stack configured to emit light located over the n-doped semiconductor material layer, a p-doped semiconductor material layer located over the active region and containing a nickel doped surface region, a conductive layer contacting the nickel doped surface region of the p-doped semiconductor material, and a device-side bonding pad layer electrically connected to the conductive layer.
US11069830B1
Disclosed is a quantum-confined Stark effect (QCSE) modulator. In the modulator, a first doped semiconductor region has a first type conductivity, is at the bottom of a trench in a dielectric layer and is immediately adjacent to a semiconductor layer. An MQW region is in the trench on the first doped semiconductor region and at least upper segments of sidewalls of the MQW region are angled away from adjacent sidewalls of the trench such that there are spaces between the MQW region and the dielectric layer. Dielectric spacers fill the spaces. A second doped semiconductor region has a second type conductivity, is on top of the MQW region and optionally extends laterally onto the tops of the dielectric spacers. The spacers prevent shorting of the doped semiconductor regions. Also disclosed are embodiments of a photonics structure including the modulator and of methods for forming the modulator and the photonics structure.
US11069823B2
A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and a plurality of output lines to which signals from the plurality of pixels are output, and each of the plurality of pixels includes a light receiving unit that outputs a pulse in response to incidence of a photon and a signal generation unit that, based on output from the light receiving unit, generates a pixel signal output to each of the output lines. The signal generation unit includes a count unit that generates a count signal indicating a count value of pulses output from the light receiving unit and a comparison unit that compares the count value indicated by the count signal with a predetermined threshold value, and the signal generation unit outputs a signal in accordance with a result of comparison performed by the comparison unit.
US11069820B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a fin type pattern protruding from a substrate and extending in a first direction, forming a field insulating layer covering a limited portion of the fin type pattern on the substrate such that the field insulating layer exposes a separate limited portion of the fin type pattern, forming a gate structure on the field insulating layer and the fin type pattern, the gate structure extending in a second direction, the second direction different from the first direction, forming a first barrier layer containing a nitrogen element in a first region of the field insulating layer, wherein the first region is exposed by the gate structure, adjacent to the gate structure and extending in the second direction and forming a gate spacer on the first barrier layer and on a side wall of the gate structure.
US11069818B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes: a first wire pattern disposed on a substrate and extending in a first direction; a first gate electrode surrounding the first wire pattern and extending in a second direction, the first direction intersecting the second direction perpendicularly; a first transistor including the first wire pattern and the first gate electrode; a second wire pattern disposed on the substrate and extending in the first direction; a second gate electrode surrounding the second wire pattern and extending in the second direction; and a second transistor including the second wire pattern and the second gate electrode, wherein a width of the first wire pattern in the second direction is different from a width of the second wire pattern in the second direction.
US11069817B2
A display device including a pixel having a memory. The pixel includes at least a display element, a capacitor, an inverter, and a switch. The switch is controlled with a signal held in the capacitor and a signal output from the inverter so that voltage is supplied to the display element. The inverter and the switch can be constituted by transistors with the same polarity. A semiconductor layer included in the pixel may be formed using a light-transmitting material. Moreover, a gate electrode, a drain electrode, and a capacitor electrode may be formed using a light-transmitting conductive layer. The pixel is formed using a light-transmitting material in such a manner, whereby the display device can be a transmissive display device while including a pixel having a memory.
US11069813B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming source/drain contact openings extending through at least one dielectric layer to expose source/drain contact regions of source/drain structures. The method further includes forming conductive plugs in the source/drain contact openings. The method further includes depositing a light blocking layer over the conductive plugs and the at least one dielectric layer. The method further includes etching the light blocking layer to expose the conductive plugs. The method further includes directing a laser irradiation to the conductive plugs and the light blocking layer. The laser irradiation is configured to activate dopants in the source/drain contact regions.
US11069810B2
A source/drain region of a semiconductor device is formed using an epitaxial growth process. In an embodiment a first step comprises forming a bulk region of the source/drain region using a first precursor, a second precursor, and an etching precursor. A second step comprises cleaning the bulk region with the etchant along with introducing a shaping dopant to the bulk region in order to modify the crystalline structure of the exposed surfaces. A third step comprises forming a finishing region of the source/drain region using the first precursor, the second precursor, and the etching precursor.
US11069807B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device includes a substrate and first and second spacers on the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a gate stack between the first and second spacers. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer having a first portion formed on the substrate and a second portion formed on the first and second spacers. The first portion includes a crystalline material and the second portion comprises an amorphous material. The gate stack further includes a gate electrode on the first and second portions of the gate dielectric layer.
US11069804B2
A power device, comprising, a semiconductor substrate composition having a substrate layer of a first conductivity type, one or more lateral double diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) devices formed in the substrate layer. LDMOS structures are integrated in to the isolation region of a high voltage well. Each LDMOS is isolated from a power device substrate area by an isolator structure formed from the substrate layer. Each LDMOS comprises a continuous field plate formed at least partially on the thick insulation layer over each of the one or more LDMOS devices and in conductive contact with the power device substrate area.
US11069799B2
Amorphous multi-component metallic films can be used to improve the performance of electronic devices such as resistors, diodes, and thin film transistors. An amorphous hot electron transistor (HET) having co-planar emitter and base electrodes provides electrical properties and performance advantages over existing vertical HET structures. Emitter and the base terminals of the transistor are both formed in an upper crystalline metal layer of an amorphous nonlinear resistor. The emitter and the base are adjacent to one another and spaced apart by a gap. The presence of the gap results in two-way Fowler-Nordheim tunneling between the crystalline metal layer and the amorphous metal layer, and symmetric I-V performance. Meanwhile, forming the emitter and base terminals in the same layer simplifies the HET fabrication process by reducing the number of patterning steps.
US11069786B2
Controlling execution of software is provided. In response to receiving an input to execute a software module on a data processing system, a set of measurements are performed on the software module performing a process to prepare the software module for execution on the data processing system. In response to determining that the set of measurements meets a predetermined criterion, an authorization to proceed with the process of preparing the software module for execution on the data processing system is requested from a trusted third party computer. In response to receiving the authorization to proceed with the process of preparing the software module for execution on the data processing system from the trusted third party computer, the software module is executed.
US11069784B2
FinFET devices with source/drain contacts with reduced resistance/capacitance power loss and with an enhanced processing window between the source/drain contacts and a gate via and methods of manufacture are described herein. A metal riser may be formed in a first recess of a source/drain contact of a first material. The metal riser and a contact via may be formed from a second material and the contact via may be formed over the metal riser to provide a hybrid source/drain contact of a finFET with a wide surface contact area at an interface between the source/drain contact and the metal riser. A dielectric fill material and/or a conformal contact etch stop layer may be used to form an isolation region in a second recess of the source/drain contact to extend a processing window disposed between the isolation region and a gate contact of the finFET.
US11069775B2
Field effect transistors and methods of forming the same include forming a stack of nanosheets of alternating layers of channel material and sacrificial material. A layer of sacrificial material forms a top layer of the stack. A dummy gate is formed over the stack. Stack material outside of a region covered by the dummy gate is removed. The sacrificial material is etched to form recesses in the sacrificial material layers. Spacers are formed in the recesses in the sacrificial material layers. At least one pair of spacers is formed in recesses above an uppermost layer of channel material. The dummy gates are etched away. The top layer of sacrificial material protects an uppermost layer of channel material from damage from the anisotropic etch. The sacrificial material is etched away to expose the layers of channel material. A gate stack is formed over, around, and between the layers of channel material.
US11069768B2
A semiconductor device includes a landing pad on a substrate, a lower electrode on the landing pad and connected to the landing pad, the lower electrode including an outer portion, the outer portion including first and second regions, and an inner portion inside the outer portion, a dielectric film on the lower electrode to extend along the first region of the outer portion, and an upper electrode on the dielectric film, wherein the outer portion of the lower electrode includes a metal dopant, a concentration of the metal dopant in the first region of the outer portion being different from a concentration of the metal dopant in the second region of the outer portion.
US11069766B2
A display panel with irregular shape and a display device. The display panel with irregular shape includes a plurality of first constant potential lines and a plurality of data lines with different lengths; and a display area is divided into a plurality of display subareas in the extending direction of the first constant potential lines, and at least one data line is arranged in each display subarea. For the different display subareas, a shorter one of the plurality of data lines in the display subareas is associated with a larger total overlapped area between this data line in the display subareas and the associated one of the plurality first constant potential lines.
US11069760B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. Through disposing the through hole in at least one of the driving circuit layer, the planarization layer, the pixel definition layer, and the common electrode layer of the display panel and in the electronic element setup region disposed corresponding to the electronic elements, external light may directly pass through a layer of film having the through hole when passing through the display panel. Light transparency is thus improved, and the technical problem that poor transparency exists in conventional flexible display screens is solved.
US11069755B2
A display panel includes a flexible electrochromic substrate comprising a first flexible substrate layer, a second flexible substrate layer opposing to the first flexible substrate layer and an electrochromic part disposed between the first and second flexible substrate layers and configured to discolor in response to a driving signal, a transistor layer disposed on the flexible electrochromic substrate, the transistor layer comprising a plurality of transistors and an organic light emitting diode layer disposed on the flexible electrochromic substrate on which the transistor layer is disposed, the organic light emitting diode layer comprising a plurality of organic light emitting diodes connected to the plurality of transistors.
US11069752B2
A display device and a manufacturing method which minimize a difference in touch sensitivity between regions of a display device are disclosed. The display includes a display area, a color filter area disposed over the display area, and a touch area disposed between the display area and the color filter area. The display area includes a substrate, an insulating layer disposed over the substrate, first and second electrodes, partition walls disposed between the insulating layer and the second electrode, an emission layer disposed in an opening formed by the first and second electrodes and adjacent partition walls, and a spacer disposed on at least one of the partition walls. The color filter area includes a first light blocking member disposed at a region overlapping the spacer and including at least two color filters stacked on each other.
US11069740B2
In a method for forming a semiconductor device photo-sensing regions are formed over a frontside of a substrate. A first layer is formed over a backside of the substrate and is patterned to form a plurality of grid lines. The grid lines can define a plurality of first areas and a plurality of second areas. A second layer maybe formed over exposed portions of the backside, the gridlines, the first areas, and the second areas and a third layer may be formed over the second layer. The second and third layer may have different etch rates and the third layer is pattern so as to remove the third layer from over the plurality of first areas.
US11069731B2
According to one example, a device includes a semiconductor substrate. The device further includes a plurality of color filters disposed above the semiconductor substrate. The device further includes a plurality of micro-lenses disposed above the set of color filters. The device further includes a structure that is configured to block light radiation that is traveling towards a region between adjacent micro-lenses. The structure and the color filters are level at respective top surfaces and bottom surfaces thereof.
US11069729B2
A photoelectric conversion device, including: a photoelectric conversion substrate having a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions and a microlens array arranged on the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions; a light-transmitting plate covering the microlens array; and a film arranged between the microlens array and the light-transmitting plate, wherein the film has a refractive index within a range from 1.05 to 1.15, an average transmittance of light in a wavelength region within a range from 400 nm to 700 nm of 98.5% or higher, and a film thickness within a range from 500 nm to 5000 nm.
US11069727B2
The imaging element includes, within a pixel, a semiconductor substrate, a photoelectric conversion unit formed in the semiconductor substrate, a first charge storage unit that stores a charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit, and a first transfer gate unit formed on an opposite surface of the semiconductor substrate on an opposite side of a light incident surface and used for transfer of a charge from the photoelectric conversion unit to the first charge storage unit. The first transfer gate unit includes a first electrode embedded in a first trench formed in the semiconductor substrate from the opposite surface of the semiconductor substrate. The photoelectric conversion unit includes the first electrode, and a second electrode surrounding at least a portion of a periphery of the first electrode.
US11069726B2
A method of manufacturing a display device, the method including providing a substrate, forming a first electrode, a second electrode spaced from the first electrode and in a same plane as the first electrode, a first alignment line connected to the first electrode, and a second alignment line connected to the second electrode on the substrate, self-aligning the plurality of light emitting elements by providing a solution containing a plurality of light emitting elements on the substrate, removing the first alignment line and the second alignment line from the substrate on which the plurality of light emitting elements are self-aligned, forming a first contact electrode electrically connecting one end of each light emitting element to the first electrode, and forming a second contact electrode electrically connecting an other end of each light emitting element to the second electrode.
US11069722B2
An active matrix substrate according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a substrate; a plurality of first TFTs supported by the substrate and provided in a non-displaying region; and a peripheral circuit including the plurality of first TFTs. Each first TFT includes: a first gate electrode provided on the substrate; a first gate insulating layer covering the first gate electrode; a first oxide semiconductor layer opposed to the first gate electrode via the first gate insulating layer; and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode connected to a source contact region and a drain contact region of the first oxide semiconductor layer. Each first TFT has a bottom contact structure. A first region of the first gate insulating layer that overlaps the channel region has a thickness which is smaller than a thickness of a second region of the first gate insulating layer that overlaps the source contact region and the drain contact region.
US11069720B2
Disclosed are a display panel and a display device, and the display panel includes a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, the display area includes a first display area and a second display area, and the number of pixels in each column of pixels in the first display area is less than that of pixels in any column of pixels in the second display area.
US11069716B2
Provided are: a glass substrate that achieves a high strain point while having a low devitrification temperature; and a method for producing said glass substrate. This glass substrate for a display is made of a glass comprising SiO2 and Al2O3, comprising 0% or more to less than 3% B2O3 and from 5 to 14% BaO in mass %, and substantially devoiding Sb2O3, wherein the devitrification temperature is 1235° C. or lower and the strain point is 720° C. or higher. Alternatively, this glass substrate for a display is made of a glass comprising SiO2 and Al2O3, comprising 0% or more to less than 3% B2O3, 1.8% or more MgO, and from 5 to 14% BaO in mass %, and substantially devoiding Sb2O3, wherein (SiO2+MgO+CaO)—(Al2O3+SrO+BaO) is less than 42%, the devitrification temperature is 1260° C. or lower, and the strain point is 720° C. or higher. This method for producing said glass substrate for a display comprises: a melting step for melting, by using at least direct electrical heating, a glass material prepared to have a predetermined composition; a forming step for forming, into a flat glass sheet, the molten glass that has been melted in the melting step; and an annealing step for annealing the flat glass sheet, wherein a condition for cooling the flat glass sheet is controlled so as to reduce the heat shrinkage rate of the flat glass sheet.
US11069712B2
A three-dimensional (3D) memory device is provided. The 3D memory device includes a substrate, an alternating conductive/dielectric stack, an epitaxial layer, and a vertical structure. The alternating conductive/dielectric stack is disposed on the substrate. The alternating conductive/dielectric stack includes a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of conductive layers alternately stacked in a vertical direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate. The epitaxial layer is disposed between the substrate and the alternating conductive/dielectric stack in the vertical direction. The vertical structure penetrates the alternating conductive/dielectric stack in the vertical direction for being partly disposed in the epitaxial layer. The epitaxial layer includes a protruding part disposed between the vertical structure and a bottom dielectric layer of the alternating conductive/dielectric stack in a horizontal direction orthogonal to the vertical direction.
US11069710B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory plane including a plurality of electrode layers stacked on a substrate and a semiconductor layer extending through the plurality of electrode layers in a stacking direction thereof, a circuit provided on the substrate around the memory plane, a first insulating layer covering the circuit, and a second insulating layer including a first portion and a second portion between the substrate and the first insulating layer. The first portion is provided along an outer edge of the memory plane, and the second portion is spaced from the first portion and is provided on the circuit side. The first insulating layer includes a part in contact with the substrate between the first portion and the second portion, and the first insulating layer blocks a diffusion of hydrogen radicals with a higher rate than the second insulating layer.
US11069706B2
In a 3D semiconductor memory device, a stack structure includes electrodes and first insulating layers disposed between the electrodes. The stack structure has a stair structure on a connection region. A vertical channel structure penetrates the stack structure on a cell array region. A vertical dummy structure penates the stair structure on the connection region. A second insulating layer is selectively disposed on the cell array region. A maximum thickness of the second insulating layer ranges from 1.5 times to 10 times a maximum thickness of the first insulating layer on the second insulating layer. The vertical channel structure includes an abrupt diameter change at a level of a top surface of the second insulating layer. The abrupt diameter change has a surface which is parallel to the top surface of the second insulating layer and is substantially coplanar with the top surface of the second insulating layer.
US11069697B1
A 3D memory device, the device including: a plurality of memory cells, where each of the plurality of memory cells includes at least one memory transistor, where each of the at least one memory transistor includes a source, a drain and a channel; a plurality of bit-line pillars, where each of the plurality of bit-line pillars is directly connected to a plurality of the source or the drain, where the bit-line pillars are vertically oriented, where the channel is horizontally oriented, and where the channel includes a circular shape or an ellipsoidal shape.
US11069690B2
A flash includes a substrate comprising an active region and two electron storage structures disposed at two sides of the active region, wherein each of the electron storage structures comprises a silicon oxide/silicon nitride/silicon oxide composite layer. A buried gate is embedded in the active region, wherein the buried gate only consists of a control gate and a gate dielectric layer, and the gate dielectric layer is formed by a single material. Two source/drain doping regions are disposed in the active region at two sides of the buried gate.
US11069685B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first region and a second region, fin type active areas extending in a first direction away from the substrate in each of the first and second regions, a plurality of nanosheets extending parallel to an upper surface of the fin type active areas and being spaced apart from the upper surface of the fin type active areas, a gate extending over the fin type active areas in a second direction crossing the first direction, a gate dielectric layer interposed between the gate and each of the nanosheets, first source and drain regions included in the first region and second source and drain regions included in the second region, and insulating spacers interposed between the fin type active areas and the nanosheets, wherein air spacers are interposed between the insulating spacers and the first source and drain regions.
US11069684B1
A semiconductor structure includes a first field-effect transistor disposed on a substrate. The first field-effect transistor includes a first metal gate, and a first source/drain region. A second field-effect transistor is vertically stacked above the first field-effect transistor. The second field-effect transistor includes a second metal gate, and a second source/drain region. The first metal gate and the second metal gate are vertically aligned and configured with an air gap disposed therebetween. The first source/drain region and the second source/drain region are vertically aligned and configured with another air gap disposed therebetween.
US11069678B2
A logic gate cell structure is disclosed. The logic gate cell structure includes a substrate, a channel layer disposed over the substrate, and a field-effect transistor (FET) contact layer disposed over the channel layer. The FET contact layer is divided by an isolation region into a single contact region and a combined contact region. The channel layer and the FET contact layer form part of a FET device. A collector layer is disposed within the combined contact region over the FET contact layer to provide a current path between the channel layer and the collector layer though the FET contact layer. The collector layer, a base layer, and an emitter layer form part of a bipolar junction transistor.
US11069676B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a gate structure comprising a gate bottom insulating layer inwardly positioned, a gate top insulating layer positioned on the gate bottom insulating layer, a gate top conductive layer positioned on the gate top insulating layer, and a gate filler layer positioned on the gate top conductive layer; and a capacitor structure comprising a capacitor bottom insulating layer inwardly positioned, a capacitor bottom conductive layer positioned on the capacitor bottom insulating layer, a capacitor top insulating layer positioned on the capacitor bottom conductive layer, a capacitor top conductive layer positioned on the capacitor top insulating layer, and a capacitor filler layer positioned on the capacitor top conductive layer. The gate bottom insulating layer is formed of a same material as the capacitor bottom insulating layer.
US11069674B2
A semiconductor device includes “n” pairs of pn-junction structures, wherein the i-th pair includes two pn-junction structures of the i-th type, wherein the two pn-junction structures of the i-th type are anti-serially connected, wherein the pn-junction structure of the i-th type has an i-th junction grading coefficient mi. A first pair of the n pairs of pn-junction structures has a first junction grading coefficient m1 and a second pair of the n pairs of pn-junction structures has a second junction grading coefficient m2. The junction grading coefficients m1, m2 are adjusted to result in generation of a spurious third harmonic signal of the semiconductor device with a signal power level, which is at least 10 dB lower than a reference signal power level of the spurious third harmonic signal obtained for a reference case in which the first and second junction grading coefficients m1, m2 are 0.25.
US11069666B2
A semiconductor package includes a frame having a through-hole, and a first semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole of the frame and having an active surface on which a connection pad is disposed, an inactive surface opposing the active surface, and a side surface connecting the active and inactive surfaces. A first encapsulant covers at least a portion of each of the inactive surface and the side surface of the first semiconductor chip. A connection structure has a first surface having disposed thereon the active surface of the first semiconductor chip, and includes a redistribution layer electrically connected to the connection pad of the first semiconductor chip. A first passive component is disposed on a second surface of the connection structure opposing the first surface, the first passive component being electrically connected to the redistribution layer and having a thickness greater than a thickness of the first semiconductor chip.
US11069660B2
A display device includes a first substrate, a first active element layer, first to third light-emitting elements, a first pixel defining layer, and fourth to sixth light-emitting elements. The first active element layer is disposed on the first substrate. The first, second and third light-emitting elements are electrically connected with the first active element layer. The first, second and third light-emitting elements have first, second and third light-emitting layers respectively. The first pixel defining layer is disposed on the first active element layer and has first, second and third openings. The first, second and third light-emitting layers are disposed in the first, second and third openings respectively. The fourth, fifth and sixth light-emitting elements are disposed on the first pixel defining layer. A vertical distance between the first light-emitting element and the fourth light-emitting element is greater than 0 micrometers and less than or equal to 5 micrometers.
US11069655B2
A semiconductor device includes a composite chip mounted over a wiring substrate, the composite chip including a first area, a second area that is provided independently from the first area, and a third area including a first material between the first and second areas. The first area includes a first circuit formed in the first area, and the second area includes a second circuit formed in the second area. The first area is spaced apart from the second area by the first material.
US11069653B2
A method of packaging a semiconductor device, comprising: attaching a plurality of dies to a carrier wafer, wherein each of the dies includes a top surface; forming a molding compound layer over the dies, wherein the top surface of the dies are covered by the molding compound layer; removing a first portion of the molding compound layer; removing a second portion of the molding compound layer such that the top surface of the dies is not covered by the molding compound layer; forming a redistribution layer (RDL) over the top surface of the dies; forming a plurality of solder balls over at least a portion of the RDL; and singulating the dies.
US11069649B2
In an embodiment, a method comprises: configuring a direct conversion compound semiconductor sensor over a first surface of a readout integrated circuit, IC, comprising two surfaces, each surface comprising solder material on the surface; illuminating the solder material with an infra-red laser such that the solder material on the readout IC melts and forms solder joints between the readout IC and the direct conversion compound semiconductor sensor; configuring a substrate over a second surface of the readout IC comprising solder material; and illuminating the solder material of the second surface with the infra-red laser such that the solder material on the readout IC melts and electrically connects the readout IC with the substrate. In other embodiments, a high frequency radiation detector and an imaging apparatus are discussed.
US11069647B2
A semiconductor wafer, a bonding structure, and a wafer bonding method are provided. In the semiconductor wafer, a bonding pad which is electrically connected to the interconnection structure is formed in the top cover layer, and a bonding alignment mark formed by a point array is disposed in the top cover layer. In this way, the bonding alignment mark is disposed in the top cover layer, and the top cover layer is not covered by another material layer, thereby facilitating recognition of the alignment pattern by the bonding device and increasing the alignment window in bonding process. Moreover, the bonding alignment mark is formed by a point array, thereby facilitating integration of the process for forming the bonding alignment mark with the bonding hole process and avoiding defects such as the dishing phenomenon in the manufacturing process.
US11069645B2
An electronic component module includes an electronic component, a resin structure, a through wire, and a wiring layer. The resin structure covers at least a portion of the electronic component. The through wire extends through the resin structure in a predetermined direction. The wiring layer electrically connects the electronic component to the through wire. The wiring layer includes a portion located between the electronic component and the through wire in plan view in the predetermined direction. The wiring layer has a protruding portion. The protruding portion protrudes in the predetermined direction between the electronic component and the through wire.
US11069634B2
An amplifier includes an amplifier circuit configured to include a transistor that amplifies a signal, an insulating film provided over the amplifier circuit, an input pad provided over the insulating film and coupled to the transistor through a wiring in the insulating film, an output pad provided over the insulating film and coupled to the transistor through the wiring in the insulating film, and a metal layer provided over the insulating film to be grounded, and configured to include an opening that extends in a second direction intersecting with a first direction in a plane direction, the signal propagating from the input pad to the output pad in the first direction, and the opening being at a position overlapping the transistor.
US11069626B2
A molding compound and a semiconductor arrangement with a molding compound are disclosed. The molding compound includes a matrix and a filler including filler particles. The filler particles each include a core with an electrically conducting or a semiconducting material and an electrically insulating cover.
US11069625B2
A method for forming a package structure and method for forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a package layer over a substrate, and forming a first dielectric layer over the package layer. The method further includes forming a first alignment mark and a second alignment mark over the first dielectric layer. The method includes forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and removing a portion of the second dielectric layer to form a first trench to expose the first alignment mark, and to form a first opening to expose the second alignment.
US11069617B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a transistor having a diffusion layer extending along a surface of a substrate and a gate electrode arranged above the diffusion layer; and contacts having elongated bottom surfaces connected to the diffusion layer on both sides of the gate electrode, in which the contacts are arranged so that the bottom surfaces of the contacts are not aligned in a straight line with an extension direction of the diffusion layer.
US11069615B2
An inductor includes: a substrate; a first wiring line located on the substrate; a second wiring line located above the first wiring line and spaced from the first wiring line through an air gap, at least a part of the second wiring line overlapping with at least a part of the first wiring line in plan view; a first supporting post connecting ends of the first and second wiring lines such that a direct current conducts between the first and second wiring lines through the first supporting post; and a second supporting post provided such that the second supporting post overlaps with the second wiring line in plan view, and overlaps with the first wiring line in plan view or is surrounded by the first wiring line in plan view, the second supporting post being insulated from the first wiring line, the second supporting post supporting the second wiring line.
US11069610B2
Methods for forming microelectronic device structures include forming interconnects that are self-aligned with both a lower conductive structure and an upper conductive structure. At least one lateral dimension of an interconnect is defined upon subtractively patterning the lower conductive structure along with a first sacrificial material. At least one other lateral dimension of the interconnect is defined by patterning a second sacrificial material or by an opening formed in a dielectric material through which the interconnect will extend. A portion of the first sacrificial material, exposed within the opening through the dielectric material, along with the second sacrificial material are removed and replaced with conductive material(s) to integrally form the interconnect and the upper conductive structure. The interconnect occupies a volume between vertically overlapping areas of the lower conductive structure and the upper conductive structure, where such overlapping areas coincide with the opening through the dielectric material.
US11069608B2
A semiconductor structure includes first and second semiconductor dies bonded together. The first semiconductor die includes a first semiconductor substrate, a first interconnect structure disposed below the first semiconductor substrate, and a first bonding conductor disposed below the first interconnect structure and electrically coupled to the first semiconductor substrate through the first interconnect structure. The second semiconductor die includes a second semiconductor substrate and a second interconnect structure disposed below and electrically coupled to the second semiconductor substrate, and a through semiconductor via penetrating through the second semiconductor substrate and extending into the second interconnect structure to be electrically coupled to the second interconnect structure. The first bonding conductor extends from the first interconnect structure towards the through semiconductor via to electrically connect the first semiconductor die to the second semiconductor die. The first bonding conductor corresponding to the through semiconductor via is smaller than the through semiconductor via.
US11069605B2
A wiring structure includes at least one upper conductive structure, a lower conductive structure and an intermediate layer. The upper conductive structure includes at least one upper dielectric layer, at least one upper circuit layer in contact with the upper dielectric layer, and at least one bonding portion electrically connected to the upper circuit layer. The lower conductive structure includes at least one lower dielectric layer and at least one lower circuit layer in contact with the lower dielectric layer. The intermediate layer is disposed between the upper conductive structure and the lower conductive structure and bonding the upper conductive structure and the lower conductive structure together. The upper conductive structure is electrically connected to the lower conductive structure.
US11069601B2
The present disclosure is directed to leadless semiconductor packages with improved wettable flanks that encourage the formation of solder fillets when the leadless semiconductor package is mounted to a substrate. The solder fillets are consistently formed and are easily detectable by inspection systems, such as automated optical inspection (AOI) systems.
US11069592B2
A semiconductor includes a lower structure, an upper structure on the lower structure, and a connection pattern between the lower structure and the upper structure. The connection pattern is configured to electrically connect the lower structure and the upper structure to each other. The lower structure includes a lower base and a first lower chip on the lower base. The first lower chip includes a chip bonding pad, a pad structure, and a heat sink structure. The connection pattern is connected to the upper structure and extends away from the upper structure to be connected to the pad structure. The pad structure has a thickness greater than a thickness of the chip bonding pad. At least a portion of the heat sink structure is at a same height level as at least a portion of the pad structure.
US11069585B2
Implementations of a method for healing a crack in a semiconductor substrate may include identifying a crack in a semiconductor substrate and heating an area of the semiconductor substrate including the crack until the crack is healed.
US11069579B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first fin extending from a substrate; a gate stack disposed on the first fin; a source/drain region disposed in the first fin; a contact etch stop layer (CESL) disposed over the source/drain region; a gate spacer extending along a side of the gate stack; and a dielectric plug disposed between the CESL and the gate spacer, where the dielectric plug, the CESL, the gate spacer, and the source/drain region collectively define a void physically separating the gate stack from the source/drain region.
US11069577B2
Methods of forming semiconductor devices include patterning a stack of layers that includes channel layers, n-type doped first sacrificial layers between the channel layers, and carbon-doped second sacrificial layers between the channel layers and the first sacrificial layers, to form one or more device regions. The first sacrificial layers and the second sacrificial layers are recessed relative to the channel layers with distinct respective etches to produce a flat, continuous, and vertical surface from sidewalls of the first sacrificial layers and respective second sacrificial layers. Inner spacers are formed in recesses formed by the recessing of the first sacrificial layers and the second sacrificial layers. The first sacrificial layers and the second sacrificial layers are etched away to leave the channel layers suspended.
US11069570B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of forming an interconnect structure. The method can include providing a semiconductor substrate; depositing a photoresist and a BARC layer on the semiconductor substrate; forming an opening in the photoresist and the BARC layer and a portion of the semiconductor substrate; depositing a conductive material to fill the opening; and planarizing the conductive material and the semiconductor substrate.
US11069562B1
A method includes forming metal lines over an interconnect structure that is formed above transistors; depositing a liner layer over the metal lines using a first high density plasma chemical vapor deposition (HDPCVD) process with a zero RF bias power depositing a first passivation layer over the liner layer using a second HDPCVD process with a non-zero RF bias power; and depositing a second passivation layer in contact with a top surface of the first passivation layer using a third HDPCVD process with a non-zero RF bias power.
US11069561B2
An electronic device comprises a dielectric structure, interconnect structures extending into the dielectric structure and having uppermost vertical boundaries above uppermost vertical boundaries of the dielectric structure, an additional barrier material covering surfaces of the interconnect structures above the uppermost vertical boundaries of the dielectric structure, an isolation material overlying the additional barrier material, and at least one air gap laterally intervening between at least two of the interconnect structures laterally-neighboring one another. Each of the interconnect structures comprises a conductive material, and a barrier material intervening between the conductive material and the dielectric structure. The at least one air gap vertically extends from a lower portion of the isolation material, through the additional barrier material, and into the dielectric structure. Electronic systems and method of forming an electronic device are also described.
US11069560B2
A method of transferring a device layer in a SOI wafer obtained by stacking a Si layer, an insulator layer, and the device layer to a transfer substrate, includes a step of temporarily bonding a surface on which the device layer is formed of the SOI wafer to a supporting substrate using an adhesive for temporary bonding, a step of removing the Si layer of the SOI wafer until the insulator layer is exposed and obtaining a thinned device wafer, a step of coating only the transfer substrate with an adhesive for transfer and then bonding the insulator layer in the thinned device wafer to the transfer substrate via the adhesive for transfer, a step of thermally curing the adhesive for transfer under a load at the same time as or after bonding, a step of peeling off the supporting substrate, and a step of removing the adhesive.
US11069555B2
A die attach system is provided. The die attach system includes: a support structure for supporting a substrate; a die supply source including a plurality of die for attaching to the substrate; a bond head for bonding a die from the die supply source to the substrate, the bond head including a bond tool for contacting the die during a transfer from the die supply source to the substrate; a first motion system for moving the bond head along a first axis; and a second motion system, independent of the first motion system, for moving the bond tool along the first axis.
US11069551B2
A method of dampening a force applied to an electrically-actuatable element during a transfer of the electrically-actuatable element from a first side of a first substrate to a second substrate. The method includes positioning a needle adjacent a second side of the first substrate opposite the first side of the first substrate. The needle is moved via a needle actuator to a position at which the needle presses on the second side of the first substrate to press the electrically-actuatable element into contact with the second substrate disposed adjacent the first side of the first substrate. A force applied to the electrically-actuatable element is dampened when the needle presses the electrically-actuatable element into contact with the second substrate.
US11069550B2
A load port includes: a port plate; and a placing table on which a container that stores the substrate is placed. The placing table includes: a base portion; a dock plate; a support unit configured to support the dock plate such that the dock plate can move between the first position and a second position; and a cam mechanism configured to move the dock plate between the first position and the second position. The support unit includes a slider configured to move together with the dock plate. The cam mechanism includes: a driving mechanism provided on the base portion; and a cam plate which is connected to the slider and in which a cam groove is formed.
US11069548B2
A substrate processing method is provided. The substrate processing method includes placing a substrate storage container storing a substrate on a load port; automatically determining a type of the substrate stored in the placed substrate storage container; by referring to a storage unit that stores a parameter data set related to a transport condition for each substrate type, controlling transport of the substrate stored in the substrate storage container based on the parameter data set corresponding to the automatically determined type of the substrate to process the substrate, and, after automatically determining the type of the substrate, and before transporting the substrate stored in the substrate storage container, performing mapping based on conditions set in the parameter data set to detect an abnormality of the substrate stored in the substrate storage container.
US11069547B2
Apparatuses and methods for in-situ temperature measurement of a process chamber are described herein. A process chamber includes an infrared (IR) sensor mounted to the chamber wall. The IR sensor is mounted such that it can be oriented to receive an IR wave from targets within the process chamber through a view port in the chamber wall to detect a temperature of a surface inside the chamber, or to receive an IR wave from a target outside of the process chamber to detect an atmospheric temperature or a temperature of an exterior surface of the process chamber. As the orientation of the IR sensor is controllable to receive the IR wave from selected directions, it may be used to detect the temperature of various targets inside and outside the process chamber. The obtained temperature information is useful to improve overall chamber matching, processing throughput, and uniformity.
US11069545B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a placing table having a placement surface and provided with a heater in each divided region obtained by dividing the placement surface; a calculation unit that calculates a target temperature of the heater in each divided region in which a critical dimension at a predetermined measurement point satisfies a predetermined condition, using a prediction model that predicts the critical dimension of the measurement point by using a temperature of the heater in each divided region as a parameter and taking into consideration an influence of a temperature of a heater in a divided region other than a divided region including the measurement point in accordance with a distance between the measurement point and the other divided region; and a heater controller that controls the heater in each divided region to reach the target temperature when the substrate processing is performed on the substrate.
US11069544B2
Rapid thermal processing method and apparatus for programming the pinned layer of spintronic devices
A rapid thermal processing method and apparatus used for programming the pinned layer of spintronic devices, the apparatus comprising a rapid thermal annealing light source, a reflective cover, a magnet, a wafer, and a substrate. The light source is used for heating the substrate. The reflective cover at least comprises a transparent insulating layer and a reflective layer. The magnet is used to produce a constant magnetic field. An antiferromagnetic layer on a wafer may be locally programmed by controlling the exposure time, for heating a specific area on the wafer to a temperature above the blocking temperature of the antiferromagnetic layer, and then turning off the magnetic field after the heating area has cooled in the presence of the applied magnetic field. This rapid thermal processing method is used to improve the spatial resolution of laser annealing. It provides excellent performance, and it is suitable for mass production.
US11069543B2
A laminate processing method includes a modified layer removing step of positioning a cutting blade to the region of the wafer corresponding to each of the division lines and cutting while supplying cutting water into which a water-soluble resin is mixed from the wafer side of the laminate, thereby removing the modified layer formed inside the wafer, a dividing step of, after the modified layer removing step is carried out, expanding the expandable tape, and dividing the laminate into individual image sensor chips, and a cleaning step of supplying cleaning water from the back surface of the wafer with a state in which the expandable tape is expanded being maintained, thereby cleaning the laminate.
US11069542B2
A cleaning water supply device includes an ultrapure water line through which ultrapure water flows by a fixed amount, a production unit that produces cleaning water by adding a solute to the ultrapure water line by a fixed amount, a storage tank for the cleaning water, cleaning machines to which the cleaning water is supplied from the storage tank, and a controller that controls the cleaning water production unit so that a water level in the storage tank is in a predetermined range.
US11069540B2
A method for fabricating an interposer substrate is provided, including forming a wiring layer on a carrier, forming an insulating layer on the carrier, forming on the wiring layer a wiring build-up layer structure that is electrically connected to the wiring layer, forming on the wiring build-up layer structure external connection pillars that are electrically connected to the wiring build-up layer structure, and removing the carrier, with the wiring layer is exposed from a surface of the insulating layer. The fabrication process of the via can be bypassed in the fabrication process by forming coreless interposer substrate on the carrier, such that the overall cost of the fabrication process can be decreased, and the fabrication process is simple. This invention further provides the interposer substrate.
US11069534B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a gate dielectric layer is formed over a channel region, a first conductive layer is formed over the gate dielectric layer, a protective layer is formed at a surface region of the first conductive layer, a metallic layer is formed by applying a metal containing gas on the protective layer, and the metallic layer is removed by a wet etching operation using a solution. The protective layer is resistant to the solution of the wet etching operation.
US11069526B2
A structure is provided that includes a first conductive component and a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) that surrounds the first conductive component. A self-assembly layer is formed on the first conductive component but not on the first ILD. A first dielectric layer is formed over the first ILD but not over the first conductive component. A second ILD is formed over the first conductive component and over the first ILD. An opening is etched in the second ILD. The opening is at least partially aligned with the first conductive component. The first dielectric layer protects portions of the first ILD located therebelow from being etched. The opening is filled with a conductive material to form a second conductive component in the opening.
US11069513B2
A charged particle beam apparatus has a chamber configured to accommodate a sample with. An inside of the chamber is decompressed. A tube having an opening is disposed in the chamber, and introduces a mixed gas having a plurality of types of gases, in a direction towards the sample. A first beam generator emits a charged particle beam toward at least one of a region between an opening of the tube and the sample, or a region of the sample against which the mixed gas collides. A mixed gas generator provides the mixed gas to the tube. The opening of the tube has an elongated shape in a cross section in a direction substantially perpendicular to a flow direction of the mixed gas.
US11069511B2
A system having an auxiliary plasma source, disposed proximate the workpiece, for use with an ion beam is disclosed. The auxiliary plasma source is used to create ions and radicals which drift toward the workpiece and may form a film. The ion beam is then used to provide energy so that the ions and radicals can process the workpiece. Further, various applications of the system are also disclosed. For example, the system can be used for various processes including deposition, implantation, etching, pre-treatment and post-treatment. By locating an auxiliary plasma source close to the workpiece, processes that were previously not possible may be performed. Further, two dissimilar processes, such as cleaning and implanting or implanting and passivating can be performed without removing the workpiece from the end station.
US11069503B2
An electron generating apparatus includes a filament, a power supply configured to supply power to the filament so as to make the filament emit an electron, and a controller configured to repeatedly detect a value having a correlation with power supplied from the power supply to the filament, determine whether a state of the filament satisfies a notification condition, by using a plurality of detected values, and perform notification when the state satisfies the notification condition.
US11069502B2
A DC circuit breaker includes a fuse unit to interrupt a large current with a fuse, and the fuse unit includes a high-speed disconnector that is connected in parallel to the fuse and is opened when a fault current is detected.
US11069494B2
A switchgear includes a movable part capable of reciprocating movement, a movable contact coupled to the movable part, a member that biases the movable contact, a latch capable of switching between a first state in which movement of the movable contact is restricted and a second state in which movement is permitted, a part that accommodates the movable part and the movable contact therein, a fixed contact provided outside of the accommodating part, and a moving part that moves with the movable contact. The latch is switched to the second state when the movable contact has moved against the biasing force. The accommodating part contains a first region and a second region, which is on a side of the fixed contact with respect to the first region within a range of movement of the moving part. The first region has an inner diameter smaller than that of the second region.
US11069493B2
A remote control device may control electrical loads and/or load control devices of a load control system without accessing electrical wiring. The remote control device may be configured to be mounted over an installed mechanical switch having a paddle actuator and may include a base and a control unit that is configured to be removably attached to the base. The base may include a frame, a clamp arm, a screw, and/or a sleeve. The clamp arm may be configured to secure the base to a protruding portion of the paddle actuator. The clamp arm may be attached to the frame at a pivot joint. The clamp arm may be configured to pivot about the pivot joint. The pivot joint may be located proximate to an endpoint or a midpoint of the frame.
US11069480B2
A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes a multi-layer unit and a side margin. The multi-layer unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a direction of a first axis, internal electrodes positioned between the ceramic layers, and a side surface facing in a direction of a second axis orthogonal to the first axis, the internal electrodes being exposed from the side surface, the multi-layer unit having a first dimension of 0.5 mm or less along a direction of a third axis orthogonal to the first axis and the second axis, the side surface having an area of 0.1 mm2 or more. The side margin covers the side surface of the multi-layer unit.
US11069477B2
A coil unit capable of inhibiting overheating in a magnetic body while the amount of the magnetic body used is reduced includes a magnetic body and a coil with an opening, the magnetic body overlaps the coil in a first direction and includes first, second, and third areas, the first area includes first and second faces, the second area includes third and fourth faces, the third area includes fifth and sixth faces, a first distance between the fifth face and the coil is shorter than a second distance between the second face and the coil and is longer than a third distance between the first face and the coil, a fourth distance between the third face and the coil is shorter than the first distance, and a fifth distance between the fourth face and the coil is longer than the third distance.
US11069473B2
An inductor includes a coil including a winding portion and an lead-out portion, a body constituted by a magnetic member and enclosing the coil, a protection layer disposed on a surface of the body, and an outer electrode. The body has a bottom surface, a top surface, two end surfaces, two side surfaces, and first and second R-chamfered sections. The outer electrode includes first and second electrode regions. The first electrode region is located on the bottom surface and is electrically connected to the lead-out portion. The second electrode region is located on the protection layer on each end surface. The number of conductive particles in the first electrode region intersecting with a unit length of a straight line perpendicular to the bottom surface is greater than that in the second electrode region intersecting with a unit length of a straight line perpendicular to the end surface.
US11069448B2
Systems and methods are provided for collaborative decision-making in medicine. The systems can employ a distributed record-keeping and verification system to solicit suggested modifications to an initial healthcare regime from interested healthcare workers. The systems can aggregate the suggested modifications and use a consensus algorithm to determine the most appropriate modification.
US11069440B2
A mobile device application for measuring actual wait times experienced by patients of doctors or other medical service providers. A patient launches the application on the mobile device, views available service providers and selects a provider. The patient starts the clock for the selected service provider when the wait begins, and stops the clock when the wait ends. At this time or after the visit, the patient can post their actual wait time, a star-based rating and comments for other patients to view on the application or on a web page equivalent. The patient must be within a GPS-verified geofence around the provider's office in order for the wait time to be considered valid. An integrated real-time messaging application used during surgical procedures is also disclosed.
US11069436B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented system includes a treatment apparatus configured to be manipulated by a user while performing an exercise session, patient interfaces associated with users, and a server computing device configured to receive treatment data pertaining to the user, determine whether at least one characteristic of the user matches at least one second characteristic of a second user, where the second user belonging to a cohort. Responsive to determining the at least one characteristic of the user matches the at least one second characteristic of the second user, the server computing device is configured to assign the user to the cohort and select, via a trained machine learning model, a treatment plan for the user. Responsive to transmitting a signal to the patient interfaces of users in the cohort, the server computing device enables the patient interfaces to establish the virtual shared session between the patient interfaces.
